The folly of the Enlightenment cult

[Chris]

Postmodernism is simply the practice of reason and it's natural conclusion, not a rejection. When one merely turns reason on itself and undermines the notion of "faith" in the primacy of reason.


The "laws of natural science" constantly change, what's true one decade becomes obsolete another. Most people are not scientists themselves either, and their blind acceptance thereof is not therefore based on their own reason or observation, rather blind faith in the authority of scientists.

Objectivity therefore cannot come from attempting to understand the external, constantly changing world, only from formal laws of the universe which are independent of any instance of observation.

(One could accept that the universe is governed by objective, universal laws, however all human attempts to define them such as via science constantly change and update).

Postmodernism is anti-reason. It is not the practice of reason.


You confuse the laws of science with the laws of nature. Nature is what it is, science tries to explain nature and changes as we learn more about nature.

[Chris]

It's a matter of you not having the grey matter needed to grasp things.

I can see you're getting frustrated.

[Devil'sAdvocate]

Postmodernism is anti-reason. It is not the practice of reason.

Postmodernism arises from reason. Postmodernist thoughts would never arise if reason didn't first arise, and show the rabbit hole that reason leads to.

You confuse the laws of science with the laws of nature. Nature is what it is, science tries to explain nature and changes as we learn more about nature.

"Science" does not exist in any inherent way, all that would exist are the fallible acts of observing by of various individuals.

Having "trust" in the accuracy of a scientist is no different than having trust in anyone else, such as a horoscopist. So science has no inherent worth beyond its situational usefulness to an individual.