JOLLY DAYS

Saving The Left From A Trendy Segment Of Itself

Post-modernism will often seek validation through false associations with science. Physicist Alan Sokal pointed out the foolishness.

From wikipedia, about the Sokal Affair:

Curious to see whether the postmodern cultural studies journal Social Text would publish any submission which “flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions”, Sokal submitted for publication a grand-sounding, but nonsensical paper entitled “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity”…The journal did publish it, and Sokal then revealed the hoax in the journal Lingua Franca…

Alan Sokal:

My goal isn't to defend science from the barbarian hordes of lit crit (we'll survive just fine, thank you), but to defend the Left from a trendy segment of itself. Like innumerable others from diverse backgrounds and disciplines, I call for the Left to reclaim its Enlightenment roots.