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Okay, Western and Central Europe.

> esa wrote:

> Well,post-modernism has certainly become under assault by conservatives and reactionaries after 9/11.

Yeah, I noticed Christians and Conservatives tend to hate them. However, so do Analytic thinkers, who dominate in US and UK. In the US, Post modernists are usually in the English departments and can be found in media, writing and political careers. However, I wasn't sure if they were more prevalent in Europe, because it seems like they are. I'm glad they are being challenged now though, because they really are full of it.

Hehe, I love how Noam Chomsky, even though he is a liberal, says that Post-modernism is meaningless.

You only imagine Chomsky says that because it affirms a larger patriarchy of self.

Actually that should read "understand" instead of imagine. One subjectively understands the text. And the text gets an active verb because the text does things; it affirms or recapitulates or asserts. And the direct object of the text's action is a hierarchy of some sort. One must always orient one's understanding of a text's action to some social system  And the hierarchy should be described obliquely so that the audience can more easily impose its own understanding in agreement

Thus "you understood chomsky to say that because he affirms a larger patriarchy of self". What does that mean? Its truth cannot be challenged without refuting the patriarchy of self and thats impossible because you the messenger dont know what it is. It could be Chomsky has been affirming a patriarchy of self all his life on purpose,or  in fact he might do it unwillingly. So asking him does no good at all.

Wrong: "The dog bit the man"

Right: "A dog was seen to revolt against the tyranny of sentience."

Damn! I was hoping that this thread would be centered around postmodernism in the field of architecture in Europe.

Can't say I like it that much either, but it's better than Modernism, at least.

Post modernism is how people started to think about stuff differently than however it was that people tended to think about stuff before the advent of post-modernism.

"Address OPEC and prove there is a 'free' market, else be ignored."

ROFL.....". . . else be ignored."   Ignored ??  You pompous SOB.  Do as you wish.  THAT is free market !!!  Ignored.

Easy.  You dont have to purchase OPEC oil....you can purchase Brent North sea, Venezuelan, Mexican, Canadian, ect.

OPEC sets pumping benchmarks that they rarely follow.  This effects price, it doesnt set it.
Futures markets sets it.

Futures are needed to fix price for delivery, so business can adjust supply accordingly.

Ignored...... ROFL.

WTF does this have to do w/the thread ?

OPEC sets production