blame it on PoMo

[Dave Monroe]

... ah, yes, Ken "New Age" Wilber, "deep thinker" ...

Doug Millison wrote:

> ". . . . aperspectival madness, the insane view that no view is
> better than another. Starting with the noble proposition that all of
> the multiple perspectives are to be treated farily and impartially
> ('pluralism and rich diversity'), postmodernism slides, in its
> extreme forms, into the insidious notion that no perspective
> whatsoever is better than another, a confusion that results in
> complete paralysis of will, thought, and action. Madness it is
> indeed:  it claims no view is better than another, except its own
> view, which is superior in a world where nothing is supposed to be
> superior at all. And worse:  if no view is better than another, then
> the Nazis and the KKK are on the same moral footing as, say, art
> critics. 'Aperspectival madness' might fairly well describe much of
> the last two decades of art, art criticism, lit crit, and cultural
> studies. Irony is one of the last few places you can hide in a world
> of aperspectival madness--say one thing, mean another, therefore
> don't get caught in the embarrassment of taking a stand. (Since,
> allegedly, no stand is better than another, one simply must not
> commit--sincerity is death). So skip sincerity, opt for sardonic.
> Don't construct, deconstruct; don't look for  depth, just hug the
> surfaces; avoid content, offer noise--'surfaces, surfaces, surfaces
> is all they ever found,' as Bret Easton Ellis summarized the scene"
>
> --Ken Wilber, _One Taste_
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