![]() ![]() OK, so it has our attention, now let us get it off our feet, move on into the future, and leave this decrepit, inane theory behind us all. Post modernism is like chewing gum that sticks to your shoe sole and impedes you from moving forward. Please: Someone rescue anthropology from its current blinding veil of post modernist, post-structuralist ideology. Geertz's failure, or rather deliberate attempt to, distinguish between the mind and the brain shows his general distaste for any sort of reasonable logic. There is little evidence to show that the human race is still undergoing evolution in the Darwinian sense. Just because you can make claims and cast doubt on opposing claims does not mean you are correct. To think that somehow culture exists out there for us to grab and chose and that it is somehow transferred through our genes and eventually influences evolution is outright ridiculous. To think the Central Nervous System is a result of culture is simply asinine. The lack of biological evidence to back up Geertz's claims is immense. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) was a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The field of cultural anthropology in and of itself is a "shady" field. Even if he, like other post-modernists, is right, we do not gain anything but perhaps a somewhat edited understanding of our world. ![]() ![]() Just like other post modernists, his theories are so vague, poorly stated, and in generally strange that they cannot be proved right or wrong. Just a Continuation of Anti-Progressive, Anti-Science: In the typical post-modernist sense, Geertz seeks to cast doubt on everything without leaving us with anything in place. ![]()
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