answering doug

[Doug Millison]

At 6:22 AM +0200 8/10/02, Otto wrote:>
>Your prejudices & rejection of the postmodernist literary theories (Food for
>Thought versus Starvation Diet) are simply silly,


Perhaps because you haven't understood the joke. It was a dig at Mackin's
tendency to trivialize whatever he comments upon.


>and since this is a list
>discussing literature (and not religion or politics) I consider this far
>worse than my* prejudices against dated superstitious beliefs like religions
>and political ideologies.

And I guess your value judgement in this regard is beyond appeal or
reproach?

You're beginning to sound like the worst sort of self-righteous, academic
literary critic, dismissing the values and thoughts of anybody who dares
not to agree with your dogma.  If you can't question the premises of
postmodernism, it can't be worth much as a way of thinking.