Maggie's Farm

quote from Mark Steyn's recent New Criterion piece on
Bloom's "Closing of the American Mind", 20 years on...(a good read BTW):

""By using the now-common relativistic formula, all individuals and thinkers in the past are ridiculed, demeaned, and scorned because they fail to live up to postmodern and politically correct standards of conduct. Thus, their ideas are considered meaningless and described as 'hypocritical' -- the absolutely worse possible sin,from the leftist perspective."

http://newcriterion.com:81/
archives/26/11/twenty-years-ago-today/


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despite the fact that the pomo's can
"believe 12 preposterous things before breakfast",
they do seem to enjoy pointing the finger,*judging*(non-judgementally,of course),
and labeling people they disagree with (hate)
as "hypocrites". Their own behavior is anything but consistent with regard to espoused values,
but never mind.


As i read this MF post and clicked back to Steyn's article,
i couldn't help thinking the epithet "hypocrit"
gets its gravitas from Christian tradition,
and more directly from Christ's condemnation of
hypocrites,who make a display of piousness,
but with no genuine intent in their hearts or behavior.

This mechanism seems to me yet another example
of an attempt to turn tradition (Christianity in this case)
to Gramscian ends.

NOW vs. Wm Jefferson Clinton's WH behavior
would seem an easy example of hypocriscy,
but it's time to MoveOn.

here's a thought provoking quote:

"The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth,or he conforms truth to desire."


from a book blurb:

"Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior by E. Michael Jones. In this ground breaking book, Jones shows how major determining leaders in modern thought and culture have rationalized their own immoral behavior and projected it onto a universal canvas. The main thesis of this book is that, in the intellectual life, there are only two ultimate alternatives: either the thinker conforms desire to truth or he conforms truth to desire. Degenerate Moderns is a marvelous tour de force. Required reading for anyone who wishes to understand the intellectual fashions of the Twentieth century."

i believe it would be fair to say the author writes
from a "Catholic vs. secular humanist" perspective.


http://www.culturewars.com/Reviews/
DegenerateModernsReviews.html