The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will:  In Response to F.L.A.T. and other
outrageous Modern and Postmodern Nonsense to the purveyors of Superstition,
Religious Fundamentalism, All Manner of Irrationality and Superstitious
Delusion

The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will:  In Response to F.L.A.T. and other
outrageous Modern and Postmodern Nonsense to the purveyors of Superstition,
Religious Fundamentalism, All Manner of Irrationality and Superstitious
Delusion -- Part 6

Now, as it were, the pendulum (symbolizing the today's intellectual and
cultural Zeitgeist) swings back via its inexorable trajectory towards a
pan-world benightedness of the intellect – thanks, in no small measure, to
The Sultans of Postmodernist Sophistry and Machiavellian Postmodernist
Politics Values.  More perspicuously stated, while the book  Higher
Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science, along with
Alan Sokal's and Jean Bricmont's book  Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern
Intellectuals' Abuse of Science are marvelously excellent masterpieces
(especially Higher Superstition) at dealing with the cosmic inanity of
Postmodernism, philosophical relativism, antirealism, extreme Afrocentrism,
social constructivism, and so forth, from a contemporary and somewhat
*synchronic* perspective, the tendrils of this parasite on The Enlightenment
Rationality Body Politic are VERY VERY deep and we are in for *far far more*
of it (Postmodernism in all its odious manifestations, Superstition, psychic
hotlines, paranormalism, Mysticism, religious fundamentalism, etc.), for a
very long time – not less.


Even more ominous is the following excerpt taken from Holton:

"Other authors provide verification and elaboration of the implications of
Berlin's findings, and especially so of what in my view is the foremost
danger posed by the movement: *the ominous joining in the twentieth century
of the extremes of a Romantic Rebellion with irrational political
doctrines.* This was evident in the Cultural Revolution in Mao's china, in
the USSR, and in other totalitarian systems.....

Long before the Nazis assumed governmental power, some German scientists and
other scholars demanded that a new science be created to take the place of
the old one which they discredited – a new 'Aryan science,' based on
intuitive concepts rather than those derived from theory; on the ether, the
presumed residence of the spirit, the 'Geist'; on the refusal to accept
formalistic or abstract conceptions, which they reviled as earmarks of
'Jewish science' and on the adoption, as far as possible, of basic advances
'made by Germans.' Scientists of undesirable races, therefore, could not
qualify; rather one had to listen only to those who were in harmony with the
masses, the "Volk." Moreover, this volkish outlook encouraged the use of
ideologically screened NONEXPERTS to participate in judgment on technical
matters (as in the Volksgerichte).

Clay Stinson

Contd. Part -- 6