[lbo-talk] Crap architecture

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Sep 18 19:41:51 PDT 2011


On 9/18/2011 7:15 PM, // ravi wrote:


> This is the issue, then, isn’t it? That value judgements are offensive. Don’t conservatives (not pomos) think the same way? They don’t like the idea that one theory might be “better” than another - in particular that their theory (say creationism) is at the receiving end of judgement calls (now, I use quotes for “better” and other judgement words, because these all imply a criteria, which I will withhold getting into until called for). (Also, liberals have the same idea too in a different sense, it seems - they don’t, per popular depiction of them, want kids to be ranked by skill or performance in some test. They are ridiculed for wanting everyone to be a winner.).

The basic thesis is simply that they do not exist, that they are an illusion,mere redundancies added to conclusions or actions otherwise generated.

Carrol



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