One Man's Meat

[Spencer Thiel]

At 7:37 AM -0700 9/29/99, you wrote:


>From George F. Will
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-09/29/047l-092999-idx.html
>
>Down from the academy has trickled the poison of
>postmodernism, defined by a non sequitur: Knowledge is
>conditioned in complex ways by the contexts in which
>facts are encountered. Therefore facts hardly matter, only
>interpretations are real. Regarding literature,
>postmodernism elevates the critic over the author, whose
>meaning the critic does not merely discover, he creates
>it. Regarding history, postmodernism invests the
>historian with the heroism of an artist, creating reality
>rather than fulfilling the mundane role of describer and
>interpreter of reality. Facts are dissolved by the radical
>indeterminacy of our relationship to reality. Thus a
>biographer can sever the tether that ties him -- how
>tiresome -- to his subject, and can strut to center stage.

That's funny.  He said the same thing last year about Mark McGwire and
Sammy Sosa.


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