Andrew Sullivan Falls For Po-Mo BS
Cripes, Sullivan. The problem with BS like this isn't that there isn't any truth in it, it's that the truth-to-BS ratio is vanishingly small.
Cripes, Sullivan. The problem with BS like this isn't that there isn't any truth in it, it's that the truth-to-BS ratio is vanishingly small.
posted by Winston Smith at
5:11 PM
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As a student of religious studies, I can only agree. My best guess is that people who say things like this have arrived at doing so because it's far easier than actually working out the problems involved in making categorical distinctions regarding science, religion, and politics.
It's so easy to just give up and say that there is no difference, but mask one's language in vague, grandiose vocabulary in order to make it not so obvious that one's position (that religion and science are no different from one another, for example) is batshit crazy.
I recently came across a copy of his Harvard dissertation and couldn't get past the first two chapters. I dare you to read the first chapter on the role of philosophy...
He's still awesome though.
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