BarkellWH -> RE: Roasted spruce (Sep. 7 2018 17:07:18)
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No one cares about facts, reality or integrity. True enough, and we get that attitude from both ends of the spectrum. From the "Post-Modern" "Lit-Crit," "Cultural Studies" Department types in universities who claim there is neither "truth" nor "facts"; that what we claim as true and factual in Science, Anthropology, History or any other field is simply a "social construct," no more valid than a Hottentot's view of the world from his perspective in the Kalahari Desert. To the "Creationist," "Fundamentalist" types who claim that the earth is 6,000 years old and that evolution is "just a theory" (demonstrating their ignorance of what a theory is--they actually, but unknowingly, mean hypothesis, and they are wrong on both counts). And then there are the "Conspiracy Theorists" who believe that the U.S. Government engineered the 9/11 attacks; that we did not land a man on the moon in 1969 (they claim it was filmed at Meteor Crater near Flagstaff, Arizona); that Area 51 is where the U.S. Air Force keeps captured aliens preserved in vats of formaldehyde (instead of being a test site for secret, advanced aircraft); that the contrails of jet aircraft are really "Chemtrails" (designed to chemically reduce habitable areas, thus reducing population); that vaccines cause autism; and the list goes on and on. I would like to invite a Post-Modernist to step out of my townhouse's second story window, and on his way down explain once again why gravity is just a "social construct." I sometimes wonder if the level of ignorance is greater today than in the past, or if it is a function of the internet, which allows anyone with a crackpot opinion to appear erudite to other crackpots willing to accept it. Bill
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