Nicholas Thompson wrote circa 10-10-22 04:15 PM: > No, on my account. Overcoming skepticism in some legitimate way is what I > mean by "getting somewhere". Skepticism is like a sheep dip; good to pass > through regularly, but not good to stand around and drink it.
OK. But what about the other benefit we get from PoMo: laughter? Is it getting anywhere to make people laugh? http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/ http://web.archive.org/web/19990221131112/www.santafe.edu/~malcolm/ http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl http://jir.com/ Surely these demonstrations of silliness get somewhere. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://tempusdictum.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
