When you look at the posts here, is becomes obvious that those of a "Liberal" persuasion think things are bad and may get worse. Their glass is half-empty. They are pessimists. Those of us on the "Right" tend to think that things are good and are going to get better. Our glasses are half-full. We are optimists.
Ah, here we go again, "liberals" are bad, conservatives are good. Let me offer you yet another way to make that distinction, at least as it pertains to much of what gets written there. Those to the left of center are more inclusive, try to think in terms of the broadest possible stretch of humanity when they characterize things; those to the right of center are exclusive, they think in terms of their own group, sometimes, unfortunately, period. Too much of the Bush foreign policy is precisely that.
Your turn.
On a related point, you have made some comments about our rejection of "PoMo." Here is a good example of why. "PoMo" gives you the Philosophical basis for "multiculturalism." That is because it states that different "truths" of different groups should be considered equal. This validates the concept that Islam, which, among other things, enslaves half of their population because it is female, is an equal culture to the West.
Those of us that are "Modernists," or "PreModernists," reject this concept. We say treat the individual as an equal unless he or she proves otherwise, but recognize that the Arab culture is primitive by our standards.
I've made the point, which either you have not heard, chosen not to hear, forgot, or whatever, that neither the versions of pomo I like nor my personal approach to things takes that position. Again, read Rorty. And, on the particular issue you raise, Bill, read any decent attempt to grapple with it in feminist writings.
Or are you getting too old to learn? ;-)) |
