Graham English

Posts Tagged ‘postmodernism’

Integral Spirituality

Integral Spirituality: A Startling New Role for Religion in the Modern and Postmodern World

Steve Pavlina In The Postmodern Sludge

First off, I enjoy reading Steve Pavlina’s blog. For the most part, it’s great stuff.
But this latest post is anti-hierarchy, relativist postmodern sludge. He’s concluding that all discerning thought is nothing more than social conditioning and fear-based attachments. Take a look at his simplistic syllogisms.
Death of a loved one = tragedy. Death of a [...]

Flatland Recipe

Paraphrasing How To Deconstruct Almost Anything:
The basic enterprise of contemporary literary criticism is actually quite simple. It is based on the observation that with a sufficient amount of clever handwaving and artful verbiage, you can interpret any piece of writing as a statement about anything at all.
Step 1 — Select a work to be deconstructed.
Step [...]