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By the way, I didn't mean to turn this into a diatribe against deconstructionism, but I have to post a link to a classic example of the supreme idiocy and incomprehensible prose of those who subscribe to this mode of thinking. Here is a thesis deconstructing Newton's Laws and labeling them as irrelevant and oppressive social constructs that are really no longer valid because they "impose" a series of rules that are based in a selected social order that is not valid in every world view (at least that's the gist I get from this crap, although what it really means is anybody's good guess if you can wade through the bullshit). And I quote from the article:

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This deconstruction of ‘Newtonian text,' which demonstrates that the presumed causality of external forces in classical physics indeed is a social construct (as postmodern sociology claims all theory to be), refutes the presupposition of natural science about the objectivist foundations of modern scientific discourse.

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So, everything can be deconstructed to a subjective social construct, which is dependent on the social order of the viewer (and no one culture or social order can ever be deemed superior to another; indeed, the discoveries and physical laws of European and American scientists are actually imperialist and oppressive because they "mechanize" the world and destroy its humanity and ecosystems). So, in other words, because the primitive tribes of New Guinea did not also independently discover the Newtonian laws of physics, then they are not subject to them (I guess they can ignore the laws of gravitation, F=ma and angular momentum). The blithering, babbling idiot who wrote this crap casually dismisses the physical laws of non-relativistic motion (which have yet to be disproven) primarily because they were discovered by a white, male native of England and are based in a "coercive power" that will eventually lead to the destruction of "subjective realities" (ala "Star Wars", where the subscribers to classical physics and its outcomes are really the oppressive empire minions who are destroyed by those in the "rebel alliance" or academic left, New Agers, fundamentalists and radical environmentalists).

So, we toss classical physics out the window because it is a tool of oppression and coercive power. What utter and complete nonsense.

http://theoryandscience.icaap.org/content/vol002.001/05zaman.html

I haven't read anything this obtuse since the last Chomsky press release; I would assume it was a joke if I didn't know the source of the information. By the way, the same blogger who pointed me in the direction of this article also noted that there have been academic roundtables held recently to deconstruct Martha Stewart and show how she is an agent of "colonialism" barring the gates from the "inferior heathens" who would destroy our culture (and I thought she just liked to create recipes and tidy house ideas).

Deconstructionism is a thought process that provides ample evidence of how "intellect" can run amok into the weeds of anti-enlightenment (a natural precursor to a new dark ages).

By the way, Trish, glad to hear you enjoyed LOTR:FOTR. Can't wait to see it again!

rubysue

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.

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No, no. You've totally missed the point. You need to consider deconstructionism in terms of a new non masculine non Eurocentric mathematical paradigmatic mode. The construction of such a humanistic modal recentrification of scientific empiracist enquiry will clearly demarcate the racist exploitative causality of the Newtonian derived sub-paradigms of current Eurocentric mathematical systems. In this context, it can clearly be deduced that Newtonian gravity is merely a quantatized trans-linear extension of the penocentric western imperialistic causality mode rooted in the deliberate Judeo Christian suppression of the feministic super-euclidian (or spirit based) transcendent modalities.

Or is that just a big old pile of hot steaming B.S.?

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OK, now I'm having a complete and total memory lapse - but the monster in the dwarves hall from the shadow realm (I can't remember the name) who knows what that was originally used in? And please refresh my memory about the name! Please.

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I don't remember hearing the name mentioned in the movie, and I'm certainly no authority, but it kinda reminded me of the Rancor from the scene below Jabba's throne room in Return of the Jedi.

BTW, kick-ass flick.

Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things. - Silent Bob