Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/22

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Subject: Re: topicality and Oddmund's post
From: Chuck Warman <cwarman@wf.net>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:07:21 -0600

At 08:34 PM 11/22/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I don't think Oddmund's posts are at all "postmodern."  As I understand it,
>the tendency of postmodernists is to deny that there is any truth
>(especially moral truth), or any correct interpretive view about "texts,"
>including photographs.  Thus postmodernists, among other things, are, in my
>view, quite amoral.  That is certainly not true of Oddmund, who, whatever
>else people say about him, has a strong moral point of view.
>
Postmodernists *do* have a moral point of view, *everyone* does, regardless
of their denials.
Postmodern morality asserts that *all* belief systems are merely masks
oppression, or the primal will to power, so let's empower ourselves! 

Leica Leica Leica Leica Leica (so this is not off-topic)    ;-)

Chuck
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Chuck Warman     <cwarman@wf.net> 
"The abdication of Belief / makes the Behavior small."
                                 ----Emily Dickinson