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Entry: Sex, Politics, and Gnosticism Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sex_politics_and_gnosticism#5999 Post contents: I have never before been called a journalist. Thank you. I was aware that Mr. Heffner had at first tried to work out a philosophy all by himself, but my secondhand impression is that it didn't amount to much. I wasn't aware that his attempt had lasted so long, and to the extent I may have given the wrong impression, I stand corrected. I am not clear what ideology I am supposed to be flogging except in the sense of flogging a dead horse. Nominalism isn't an ideology, but a metaphysic, the mother of ideology, and it is not a dead horse. It only smells like one. Realism, which I do admit to favoring, though not to flogging, is rather our liberation from ideology to, for lack of a better term, reality. I do suspect that this discussion has already reminded many at this site of that classic Benny Hill skit in which the householder opens the door to a dominatrix in full, uh, regalia, and of course shuts it quickly. "Who is it, Dear?" "Oh, just somebody to flog something." I do think that both Kirk and Weaver wished to be postmodern in the sense their friend Canon Bell intended when he coined the term. For reasons I will go into elsewhere, I doubt they made it all the way. Sent at: 2008 09 06