The alien hypothesis?

[John Doe]

LOL! "semantic constructs" my ass...matter of fact,
next time a person falls on his ass, tell him, "hey!
dude; you just suffered from the effects of a semantic
construct!" Talk about sucking up to dogma; the people
who wrote all those texts - oh pardon me, I should say
'generated' those texts, since we all know the
individual "I" is an illusion; another "sematic
construct" - tell you that math and science is just a
buncha semantic constructs, and you go along with it,
not even wondering whether these guys know what they
are talking about or not...I'd venture to guess that
the reason you can't believe this naivete doesn't
exist is simply because YOU never felt it...that's a
cop out of gross lack of empathy; to presume someone
else can't feel childish wonder at viewing Mars
through a telescope just because you don't share that
sentiment...I mean, I don't like NASCAR, but I sure as
hell can understand or try to understand WHY others
do...that by the way, is a prime "ingredient" of
someone like Pynchon; a novelist who has a febrile
imagination, and can "put himself in the shoes" of
many types of people quite convincingly...oops -
sorry..."people" don't exist; they are sematic
constructs and disembodied conveyances for the
generation of textuality....blah blah blah...guess Lit
Crit folks shouldn't get all bent about Hiroshima,
since it only affected textual entities, not
indiviuals with real felt and lived lives...

--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> On 18/10/2005 Blake Stacey wrote:
> 
> > Whether or not the Bomb should have been made or,
> once made, dropped 
> > upon Japan
> > is of course a vast subject with no clear
> resolution.  Nevertheless, 
> > it is a
> > considerable part of why, as Gleick says,
> "physicists did not make 
> > natural
> > hippies."
> 
> This is a bit of a cop-out. Would you say the same
> about Josef Mengele? 
> Or von Braun?
> 
> I don't think the claim of naivete actually
> exonerates "Science", or 
> whether it is anything more than a grotesque
> over-generalisation in the 
> first place. And the celebration of its symbiosis
> with the 
> military-industrial complex is hardly warranted.
> These are some of the 
> issues which Critical Theorists, and ethicists and
> academics working 
> within the discipline -- and Pynchon too -- are
> concerned to 
> investigate and challenge. "The scientific method",
> the notion of the 
> "falsifiable hypothesis", and claims to
> "Objectivity" and impartiality 
> are demonstrated to be little more than semantic
> constructs, 
> smokescreens which can be and are used to justify
> just about anything 
> -- "Hey, we'll do whatever we want and just
> 'un-learn facts' when we 
> have to." "It's really maths, but we'll call it
> 'Science' anyway; 
> no-one will know the difference. And if they
> question us we'll start 
> talking about Ethiopia." "As long as the funding
> keeps rolling in I 
> don't really care where it comes from. I just want
> to muck around with 
> all the cool toys in the lab -- coz I've got a
> childlike passion and a 
> zest to Know." "Gee guys, I didn't realise you were
> actually going to 
> *use* that bomb. Oh me oh my ... but it's OK because
> I'm a genius." 
> Gimme a break.
> 
> best
> 
> 



		
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