[UA] Sokol dragged, kicking and screaming, back on topic...

[Ysidro]

Greg Stolze wrote:
> 
> >> Here is a link to the article referred to above, Greg is part right,
> >> actually the article claims that <italic>reality</italic> is subordinate to
> >> ones <italic>political</italic> beliefs, the basis for all magic(k).
> >>
> >>
> >>http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.
> >>html
> >>
> >
> >I'm never sure if I should be joyeous or horrified that the entire paper
> >was a parody.  Still, the story surrounding "Transgressions..." is an
> >interesting read.
> >
> >http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/
> 
> Having read the article, I can see that the trap was baited extremely well
> -- not in the sense that it was ideologically appealing to the editors, but
> in the sense that it was ambiguous enough to be read multiple ways --
> depending on whether by "science" you mean "the discoveries of science" or
> "the practice of science."  But anyway, it gives me an idea for a UA kind
> of fable...
> 
> # # #
> 
> Andrew and Betty are having a disagreement.
> 
> "Clearly," says Andrew, "The empirical world is a trap from which we must
> escape, because it is, ultimately, immutable."
> 
> "Clearly," says Betty, "The world or our perceptions is a trap from which
> we must escape, because it is, ultimately, unreliable."
> 
> "Fortunately," says Andrew, "We have a realm of culture and language which
> we CAN control.  The more we devote ourselves to such things, the more
> perfectly human we will be."
> 
> "Fortunately," says Betty, "We have systems of logic and mathematics, upon
> which we CAN rely.  The more we devote ourselves to such things, the more
> perfectly human we will be."
> 
> Which one is right?
> 
> And perhaps more importantly -- why aren't they listening to one another?
> 

Well if it's Unknown Armies they aren't listening to each other because
Andrew is actually watching the Naked Goddess tape at the time and Betty
is drunk off of moonshine kept in a keg once used by the Capone Delivery
Service.

> -G.
> 
> Why, yes, I have been reading "Nobilis" -- does it show?
> 

Not to me.  Of course, I haven't seen, much less read, Nobilis yet.  I'm
kinda surprised, my FLGS usually has a great selection.

Greg
-- 
Penn-Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society
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