Posted by mbstevens on 12/09/05 16:27

dorayme wrote:
>>From: mbstevens <NOXwebmasterx@xmbstevensx.com>
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>>dorayme wrote:
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>>>>[1] Els, Apologies for referring to you as "the nice lady".
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>>>You need to understand a few things young Dylan[1]. Luigi is
>>>inherently European. He is Italian, he works in Sweden and he
>>>gets beaten up in Germany. He would have been to France. The
>>>point is that he is deeply existential and heavily influenced by
>>>European philosophers. These philosophers are big on Structural
>>>Relationships and not afraid to boast about it in a lot of
>>>Capitalised Words.
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>><ROFL>
>>But every time I start to gloat I remember that over here we have to
>>deal with the influx of fundamentalism into academia, and I have to ask
>>who's in worse shape.
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> So, how bad is it over there and what sort of fundamentalism?

A coalition of religious fundamentalisms.

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The clearest symptom is that
'intelligent design'
(creationism with a pipe, but still clearly metaphysics)
has been added to the middle and high school biology texts in several
states.

I've also gone through the online site of some university philosophy
departments, and found them starting to offer more metaphysical bunkum
instead of stressing more sensible course work like symbolic logics and
philosophy of mathematics.

The situation is very, very sad. I feel like I've been sent back to the
1950s in a time warp. Like an ancient Roman at the sunset that began
the Dark Ages.

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