Sokal-style hoaxes work for religious postmodernists, but (post) modernism is the real hoax Modernism in art and architecture, and postmodernism in philosophy are, like religion, insults to human intelligence. Unfortunately, many people fall for their hollow propaganda. The "Sokal Affair" was a hoax whereby a man called Alan Sokal submitted a postmodern-sounding article to a postmodern journal. It turns out that the English you hear isn't just unintelligible to you, but it's unintelligible to the people at the journal as well. But if it's unintelligible, it must be profound, right? The journal quickly accepted it, not knowing that it was all fake B.S. They then got embarrassed when they were told that it was pompous-sounding drivel. Religion has done the same thing. When people can't understand something, they generally think it's much more profound than if they can understand it. If a priest speaks Latin, wears some weird costume, and sp...
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