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I know I already shared a \u201cquote of the day\u201d but these words from Ken Schenck<\/a> seemed worth passing along:<\/p>\n

\u201cPostmodernism as it has trickled down to the common person has been used to legitimize tribalism of all sorts, and only a return to a chastened modernism and sense of objectivity will give us an intellectual path out of our hobbled thinking.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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\u00a0<\/em>I have long felt unhappy being categorized either as a modernist or a postmodernist, preferring the mediating stance of \u201ccritical realism.\u201d But I could see myself being quite happy as a member of a \u201cSociety of Chastened Modernists.\u201d What about you?<\/span><\/div>\n
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