Once, I've heard a story of a man called Allen Sokal. He was a physicist, who was against the anti-intellectual movement throughout the post-modernism scholars. He was curious about whether the editors of such post-modernistic magazines would allow 'any' dissertation that fits their taste and seems to make sense. He submitted an academic article titled "Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity", which was about interpreting quantum gravity in the perspective of humanities, or in another word; rubbish. A magazine Social Text published his paper, and on the same day, Sokal submitted an explanation to another magazine Franca Lingua that his paper was a trick to bewilder post-modernists.
Actually, it is hilarious to see others being deceived, but what if that is my case? I have quite much interest on American Indians and cultural relativism, so at first sight, I wrote a reflection based on cultural relativism, though wondering why their habitat was so wide; from Canada to Caribbean Sea.
I was another post-modernist, and was totally faked. Though it was amusing to find how each 'ritual' correspond with our life. We usually say outsiders' cultures 'strange'. When we say we should admit them and talk about 'relativism', there is a condition that the object is exotic, and under the condition, we are apt to think that "to be same is to be comfortable". Psychologically, it is true. Mr. Menard said our essays were hilarious and for I am sure that mine was not an exception, I can not stop myself from making a gesture below.
actually, what 'I' just 'wrote' was.
It would be interesting to think about an Asian primitive tribe Naerok, and what would we see? The exclusive, tradition-maintaining people, or the people with opened and flexible mind?
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