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Talk:Theory of relativity (view source)
Revision as of 04:35, November 29, 2009
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Cherry-picking the anomalous data points that don't fit into relativity, while ignoring the vast majority of the evidence which does confirm it is not scientific. [[user:jfraatz|Johanan Raatz]]
Cherry-picking the anomalous data points that don't fit into relativity, while ignoring the vast majority of the evidence which does confirm it is not scientific. [[user:jfraatz|Johanan Raatz]]
== A Word on Relativism ==
Despite implications made here relativism did not come into being or become popular due to relativity. The roots of modern popular relativism can be traced back to Freud and in particular a group of neo-Marxist intellectuals known as the "critical theorists" who combined Marx with Freud to argue that all morality was merely a construct to be "liberated" from:
http://mildcolonialboy.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/political-correctness-is-cultural-marxism-part-iii-speech-by-william-lind/
Basically they viewed all ideologies (even correct ones) as "oppressive." Therefore any correct moral system based on an objective ideology was "wrong" in their eyes. Thus no one moral system could be thought of as correct -hence relativism.
The critical theorists came over around WW2 to escape Germany and set up in the States. Here they then were the movers and shakers behind the counterculture of the 60's, which is where moral relativism comes from today.
Again it has nothing to do with relativity. It would have gone off on it's own with or without relativity.
[[user:jfraatz|Johanan Raatz]]