Comments on: What Postmodernism can do for you http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5400 LWIII Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:35:46 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-5400 Hey Ron, I don't think it was a sloppy reaction, it was a sloppy assumption on my part that you were being ironic. Somehow I had the idea that you like leaders and thought following was bad. Sheesh, duh. And so it goes... Thanks for clearing that up! Shows how cynical I am, figuring anytime someone says thank you to the Postmodernists they must be wrapping it in irony. Appreciate it, and no you weren't sloppy, it was just a misreading by me. LWIII Hey Ron, I don’t think it was a sloppy reaction, it was a sloppy assumption on my part that you were being ironic. Somehow I had the idea that you like leaders and thought following was bad. Sheesh, duh. And so it goes…

Thanks for clearing that up! Shows how cynical I am, figuring anytime someone says thank you to the Postmodernists they must be wrapping it in irony.

Appreciate it, and no you weren’t sloppy, it was just a misreading by me.

LWIII

]]> By: Ron C. de Weijze http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5393 Ron C. de Weijze Fri, 02 Oct 2009 10:07:15 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-5393 Tom, sorry I was so sloppy in my quick reaction. I should have communicated I praise Twitter, and post-post-modernism. They restore democracy because they restart at the bottom, stimulating following not leading (self-proclamation & elitism). Our times have facilitated that through the technical means we have i.e. our computers and the internet. You must have assumed I was in kynical (P Sloterdijk http://bit.ly/45Lo06 ) mode, but I wasn't! * Tom, sorry I was so sloppy in my quick reaction. I should have communicated I praise Twitter, and post-post-modernism. They restore democracy because they restart at the bottom, stimulating following not leading (self-proclamation & elitism). Our times have facilitated that through the technical means we have i.e. our computers and the internet. You must have assumed I was in kynical (P Sloterdijk http://bit.ly/45Lo06 ) mode, but I wasn’t!

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]]> By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5385 LWIII Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:07:00 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-5385 I'll be darned, so it worked, politically? Because it seemed to me to be partly if not mostly a power grab by those out of power – by demonstrating that the belief system of those in power was arbitrary and not based on anything but belief, basically, and their own interests. Postmodernism, the little I read of it, seemed to be a continual wail against power... but only because they were the ones without it. It was kind of like they were out to destroy certainty. Then when certainty was destroyed, they could move into the vacuum. To me it's one of those good things bad things kind of things. It's good to know that there is no certainty, but it's bad not to have certainty. Certainty is foolish, when it comes to the truth of human existence, since we ain't got none, but without the feeling of certainty we ain't got no poop, neither, no sense of righteousness than can impart emotional power to our actions. Another argument for the value of ignorance. It doesn't matter what is real, it only matters how we feel about it. It's better to be incorrect and certain than it is to be uncertain. The ways of the fathers may have been wrong, but at least they had a way. So you really think Twitter, is bad, Ron? That surprises me, and is kind of disappointing. I really don't think the internet is bad. How could communication be bad? I don't get that. Thanks! I’ll be darned, so it worked, politically? Because it seemed to me to be partly if not mostly a power grab by those out of power – by demonstrating that the belief system of those in power was arbitrary and not based on anything but belief, basically, and their own interests. Postmodernism, the little I read of it, seemed to be a continual wail against power… but only because they were the ones without it. It was kind of like they were out to destroy certainty. Then when certainty was destroyed, they could move into the vacuum.

To me it’s one of those good things bad things kind of things. It’s good to know that there is no certainty, but it’s bad not to have certainty. Certainty is foolish, when it comes to the truth of human existence, since we ain’t got none, but without the feeling of certainty we ain’t got no poop, neither, no sense of righteousness than can impart emotional power to our actions.

Another argument for the value of ignorance. It doesn’t matter what is real, it only matters how we feel about it. It’s better to be incorrect and certain than it is to be uncertain. The ways of the fathers may have been wrong, but at least they had a way.

So you really think Twitter, is bad, Ron? That surprises me, and is kind of disappointing. I really don’t think the internet is bad. How could communication be bad? I don’t get that.

Thanks!

]]> By: Ron C. de Weijze http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-5382 Ron C. de Weijze Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:14:02 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-5382 Pomo has never been well defined imho, it has mainly functioned as a name for a claim to know what all that we value really is: nothing really and a call for radical change, yes they could, those late hippies. You can check countries for how much pomo has destroyed them, has helped lefties into saddles they had kicked righties out of in the 60s. Indeed, that is where they now reside, and to much disdain, especially to those who never belonged to any elite, rightist nor leftist. So that is what post-post is all about: how to get leaders and leading out of fashion and follower and following into it. Twitter has so far done the best job at that methinks. And all that it prerequired of course (internet, computer). So thanks, thank you so much, anyone whom may have been involved!! Pomo has never been well defined imho, it has mainly functioned as a name for a claim to know what all that we value really is: nothing really and a call for radical change, yes they could, those late hippies. You can check countries for how much pomo has destroyed them, has helped lefties into saddles they had kicked righties out of in the 60s. Indeed, that is where they now reside, and to much disdain, especially to those who never belonged to any elite, rightist nor leftist. So that is what post-post is all about: how to get leaders and leading out of fashion and follower and following into it. Twitter has so far done the best job at that methinks. And all that it prerequired of course (internet, computer). So thanks, thank you so much, anyone whom may have been involved!!

]]> By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-4185 LWIII Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:50:09 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-4185 Thanks Lisa, for the comment, and glad to know I ain't the lone stranger. Thanks Lisa, for the comment, and glad to know I ain’t the lone stranger.

]]> By: Lisa Kenney http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/15/what-postmodernism-can-do-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-4183 Lisa Kenney Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:20:43 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=972#comment-4183 My experiences to date with postmodernism exactly :) My experiences to date with postmodernism exactly :)

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