I’m reminded of the story of the laconic Calvin Coolidge. So it goes, he was returning from church and was asked about what had gone on:
“Calvin, what was the preacher’s sermon about?”
“Sin.”
“What did he say?”
“He was agin’ it.”
Sadly, the only one of the works you mention with which I’m familiar is Feyerabend’s Against Method, which tries, deliberately and repeatedly, to be shocking. Sadly, he was far too intelligent to maintain his ‘anything goes’ claim with any consistence. The more accurate ‘Against Universal, Context-Free Scientific Method’ does not have the same snappy, épater le bourgeois mimetic flavour.
I’m reminded of the story of the laconic Calvin Coolidge. So it goes, he was returning from church and was asked about what had gone on:
“Calvin, what was the preacher’s sermon about?”
“Sin.”
“What did he say?”
“He was agin’ it.”
Sadly, the only one of the works you mention with which I’m familiar is Feyerabend’s Against Method, which tries, deliberately and repeatedly, to be shocking. Sadly, he was far too intelligent to maintain his ‘anything goes’ claim with any consistence. The more accurate ‘Against Universal, Context-Free Scientific Method’ does not have the same snappy, épater le bourgeois mimetic flavour.
Yep, precisely. Thanks.
It's a meme about rhetoric - to shock, grab attention etc - not about the eventual content.
(Apologies, made a few edits since your original "like" ... but all the same intent.)
(And in that list of other examples from ChatGPT - the DEI woke meme get's a lot of coverage from that Ryan Conrad collection?)