cultural studies = garbage

[Philosopher Richard Rorty] once suggested that science had been established by modern man “to fill the place once held by God” but that it didn’t merit that position; it should be seen, Mr. Rorty said, as having the “same footing” as literature or art, and he suggested that physics and ethics were just differing methods of “trying to cope.”

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One tendency of pragmatism might be to so focus on the ways in which one’s own worldview is flawed that trauma is more readily attributed to internal failure than to external challenges. In one of his last interviews Mr. Rorty recalled the events of 9/11: “When I heard the news about the twin towers, my first thought was: ‘Oh, God. Bush will use this the way Hitler used the Reichstag fire.’”

Peking Dork now suggests that postmodernism has been established by modern intellectuals to fill the place once held by science but that it doesn’t merit this position. We should see postmodernism as having the “same footing” as sewage or trash. Peking Dork also suggests that literary criticism and cultural studies are just different types of garbage.

And so leftists use 9-11 to whine about how awful the US is.