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To: gao seng who wrote (117412)	12/18/2000 10:30:48 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

Stuff that I read on the original Sokal scandal was hilarious, especially the squirming to save face after he revealed the hoax. It is my personal belief that anyone who cannot explain, within a reasonable degree of accuracy, complex ideas to non- specialists does not adequately understand the ideas himself. Although there is a place for jargon, to expedite communication among specialists, it should not be utterly inaccessible, and it is inappropriate for a general audience. The theories underlying the post- modern academics, have never been adequately argued anywhere, as far as I can tell. They are a grab bag of notions from Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, the Frankfurt School, Heidegger, and others. I have not tried the generator yet. Maybe when I am feeling more robust......