From Douglas Wilson
Gratitude for the Laws
Topic: Postmodernism
Enlightenment modernist types want laws to run everything, all by themselves, and they want this in every department of human thought. It doesn't matter if we are talking about logic, or science, or economics. They want the whole schbeal run by the law of non-contradiction, the law of gravity, and the law of supply and demand. These impersonal laws float ten yards above the surface of the ground, each one holding itself up there by its own shirt collar. Here's this "law," telling everybody and everything what to do, and you just have to obey it, okay? "Why do we have to obey it?" "Don't ask questions," somebody hisses. "He just floated in one day and spoke with great authority."...
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