“I define postmodern as incredulity towards metanarratives.”
“Where, after the metanarratives, can legitimacy reside?” He continued, “Postmodern knowledge is not simply a tool of the authorities; it redefines our sensitivity to differences and reinforces our ability to tolerate the incommensurable. Its principle is not the expert’s homology, but the inventor’s paralogy.” And paralogy–or the challenge of an alternate discourse–disorder–is at the heart of Lyotard’s solution to the end of the metanarrative...
מנא מנא תקל ופרסיןMENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN
U___G___H___!
ReplyDeleteThe music of a MORIBUND culture tricked, bullied and beguiled by demonic perverts into adopting a SUICIDAL mentality, and a morose, exhaustedhopeless attitude toward life before their lives have even begun.
If that ain't EVIL, I couldn't hope to tell you what is.
LOVED Admiral McRaven, though I found his talk terribly humiliating. Made me realize that I never have and never could measure up to the incredible standards he describes.
ReplyDeleteNavy Seal training, as he describes it, sounds downright sadistic –– certainly cruel. I know I could never even begin to meet such standards, but –– humbling as it is to face evidence of one's own inferiority, it only made me feel glad that there ARE some who DO have what it takes, and that gys like that are willing to use their toughness, reslience and immense streangth of character to PROTECT and DEFEND the rest of us.
The filthy, Pot-Smoking, Rock-Addled, Sexually Promiscuous Hippies and Lazy-Good-For-Nothing Drug Addicts who opted OUT of even TRYING to make ANYTHING of themselves while taking NO responsibility for their poor choices and selfish dissolute actions deserve the early ignominious DEATH they've stupidly opted for.
These worthless SCUMBUMS are the polar OPPOSITEs of the kind of men Admiral McRaven has worked so diligently to mold.
So is the hides TOXIC MEW-SICK the slovenly scubums adore. That MEW-SICK has been a primary force for luring potentially good, substantial, productive, possibly-even-HAPPY young citizens towards a CHARLEY MANSONESQUE lifestyle.
What a pity so much of Western Society has been SO "dumbed down" it can't even recognize EVIL when it's staring them right in the face!
Line in "No Plan"....
ReplyDeleteThis is NOT QUITE YET.
It scares me, honestly, but why be scared? If I believe, I know Who has won the war, though it appears some battles may be lost.
p.s. I LOVE this album by Bowie (you knew that). It's hard to listen to because a) it's emotional and hits hard and b) it's odd sounding.
But every time I hear one of the songs from this album, it hits deeper.
Nothing evil about it...just a human being human.