Thursday, August 20, 2009

The Postmodern World

Basil here. I'm going to let J.M. have a turn at blogging so get ready to think
What characterizes the postmodern world? Relative truth? I would argue with the radical view of a personal myth that social existence requires shared language, relevant to and descriptive of phenomena, shared databases, for lack of a better word, and shared experience.
I would argue that truth is a variable related to strategy in game theory and constrained by the rules of the complex multi-player game we call existence. The bold statement that delusion has truth value, that insanity is a legitimate reality, hasn't been openly stated since the 1950's. The EEG, the CT scan, and the MRI have all checked in on the question with the exact same observation. Without proper medication, the cerebral cortex is dysfunctional in the insane mind.
Of course you could hold to the radical view of relative truth if you think that very large lizards are capable of legitimate performance in legitimate human games. It's up to you. It's your quarter. You can call it anyway you want. That's the way of postmodernism, isn't it?
Do well and be well.

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