[percy-l] gay marriage
LTberrywtr at aol.com
LTberrywtr at aol.com
Thu Aug 14 10:09:14 EDT 2003
Jim --
All may be flux for the post-everythings. But that's their problem; we
needn't make it ours.
To say that everyone is a product of his time and place and is tugged by
all sorts of prejudices (and in some caeses, agendas) is to demonstrate no
more than a firm grasp of the obvious. But to then jump to the conclusion that
words have no meaning and there's no truth to be found is absurd.
And believe me, the post-everythings don't even live this nutty idea.
When the air conditioning goes out in August in the Women's Studies faculty
warren at my alma mater - the University of South Florida in sub-tropical Tampa -
no one there insists on a feminist, Marxist repair person. When a full
professor of literature - with all the politically correct views on life and language
-- needs to have his heart four-laned or die, he doesn't seek a
non-phallo-centrict cardiologist. These folks are willing, whether they state it or not, to
believe under these trying circumstances that there are Real Truths in air
conditioning repair and in cardiology. And it's easy enough to know whether or
not the AC repairman has found The Truth. If he has, the AC comes on and the
office become bearable again.
When the post-everythings gave up on the search for truth they didn't -
as they frequently like to advertise - find freedom. They simply found fashion.
Some liberation.
-- Larry
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