Roger’s Rules

By Roger Kimball

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Mpeterson
2008-04-30 21:34:48

Whew. Okay, speaking as a student of Hegel (arguably the one guy most responsible for the pomo mess now being perpetrated by English departments everywhere) and (although I don’t flash my gang signs very often) as a PhD from Deepest Darkest Philosophy, here’s the joke I’ve been using as an inoculation against this kind of nonsense for some years now:

Q: “What do you get when you cross a postmodernist with a mafia hit man?”

A: “You get an offer you can’t understand.”

Steve Fuller isn’t one of ours anymore either.

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