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• 21:59, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Hermeneutic of Suspicion (Created page with "In reviewing this definition, I realized I needed to express it in terms that postmodern people could understand. So, here goes... The hermeneutics of suspicion is the perspective that today's woke people have toward the scriptures and towards other foundational elements of pre-postmodern society. Okay, now that I've said that, I can perhaps explain what it is to people who are not yet woke. The expression ''hermeneutics of suspicion'' can be traced to [https://en.m.w...")
• 21:58, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Grift (Created page with "Grift is actually an old (in postmodern terms) word. It's usage, however, has reemerged in the past few years and is now quite popular. It is used as a noun (and, in that case, equates to "graft") or a verb. In the latter case, according to Dictionary.com, it can be used as a transitive or as an intransitive verb. Wiktionary classifies it as a slang term. I have yet to see it used as a transitive verb.")
• 21:57, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Grand Old Party (Created page with "The term, "Grand Old Party," or, simply "GOP," is a kind of nickname for the Republican Party. It is intended to express a certain affection, and belief in the age, pedigree and viability of the party. History, it may be said, has yet to rule on the suitability of this expression. Nevertheless, its use is clearly consistent with the general tendency of "grade inflation" within the contemporary, post-modern culture.")
• 21:55, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Government (Created page with "A civil institution, tasked (in theory) with representing the interests of the people in establishing good order supporting economic and social interaction. In a society where people cannot agree on what constitutes "good order" or "the interests of the people," the reins of government tend to be dominated by two main interest groups, which can be distinguished according to who they benefit and why. See, for example, Republican and Democrat. See also bureaucrac...")
• 21:54, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Good (Created page with "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the term "good" had something to do with virtue, and, even, dare I say it, holiness. Good, like the term realist, has a classical, a modern, and a post-modern definition. Jesus declared that only God is "good." Classical philosophers found such definitions too rigorous, however, and they proposed a variety of alternate definitions. Thus, we have the followers of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus Epicurus], who belie...")
• 21:52, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Globalism (Created page with "One of the more intriguing words in use, today. The first thing to note is that the connotations attaching to the term today are not reflected in the dictionary definitions. For example: : Dictionary.com defines globalism as "the attitude or policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations." : Merriam-Webster.com defines globalism as "a national policy of treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence." The Mer...")
• 21:49, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs deleted page About Page (content was: "The Postmodern Dictionary is a conservative's look at postmodern progressive doublespeak. This politically incorrect postmodern dictionary is a repository of postmodern usage of modern terminology. Its purpose is to explain such usage to modern people who have failed or decided not to cross over into the heady territory of anything-goes postmodernism. It is not to be confused with the...", and the only contributor was "Root" (talk))
• 21:45, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Postmodern Dictionary:About Page (Created page with "About Page: The Postmodern Dictionary is a conservative's look at postmodern progressive doublespeak. This politically incorrect postmodern dictionary is a repository of postmodern usage of modern terminology. Its purpose is to explain such usage to modern people who have failed or decided not to cross over into the heady territory of anything-goes postmodernism. It is not to be confused with the postmoderndictionary.com, which has been discontinued. It was a site that...")
• 21:33, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs deleted page Postmodern Dictionary:About (content was: "About Page: The Postmodern Dictionary is a conservative's look at postmodern progressive doublespeak. This politically incorrect postmodern dictionary is a repository of postmodern usage of modern terminology. Its purpose is to explain such usage to modern people who have failed or decided not to cross over into the heady territory of anything-goes postmodernism. It is not to be confu...", and the only contributor was "Root" (talk))
• 21:32, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page About Page (Created page with "The Postmodern Dictionary is a conservative's look at postmodern progressive doublespeak. This politically incorrect postmodern dictionary is a repository of postmodern usage of modern terminology. Its purpose is to explain such usage to modern people who have failed or decided not to cross over into the heady territory of anything-goes postmodernism. It is not to be confused with the postmoderndictionary.com, which has been discontinued. It was a site that documents m...")
• 21:29, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Female priesthood (Created page with "Female priesthood, as currently conceived in mainline monotheistic religions, is a cultural and historical aberration. There is a fascinating article in Wikipedia on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordination_of_women ordination of women] which, if the reader is patient and thorough in reading and "drilling down" to source articles, clearly demonstrates the following points of interest to this issue: : Not every instance of ordained priesthood covered in the article is ac...")
• 21:28, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Gender Equality (Created page with "The idea behind gender equality in the post-modern era is that all genders are equal in all respects. What does "equal" mean, you ask? Given the evident differences among genders (in pre-post-modern times, one would have said "between genders") the term "equal" is clearly problematic. Are apples and oranges equal? Yet gender equality is a prerequisite concept for equal justice under the law in the eyes of progressives. In practice, this leads to many distortions....")
• 21:26, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Gender (Created page with "More than any other term in the English language, the term "gender" is notoriously difficult to define. Once upon a time, the term "gender" was a kind of generic term applied to the classification of male vs. female. In many languages, however, gender came to be applied to inanimate objects with no discernible connection with sexual function or orientation. As if this were not confusing enough, a consensus built within polite society to agree to label a man "female," o...")
• 21:23, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Freedom (Created page with "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the term "freedom" referred to a capacity to pursue the good without interference from tyrants. Nowadays, paleos refer to this as "freedom for" to distinguish it from "freedom from." What's confusing about all of this is the use of the term "good." Like the term realist, the term good has a classical, a modern and a post-modern definition. The impact of this is to give the term "freedom" three definitions. We h...")
• 21:19, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Free Thinker (Created page with "The term free thinker is an artifact of modern thought, and is prototypically defined (at least in precursor form) by the thought of Rene Descartes, who believed that everything should be questioned, even belief in God, and should only be accepted on the basis of logic and reason. Descartes, rather conveniently, was able to invent all sorts of reasons to justify his Christianity. Others, of a more skeptical bent, who followed him, such as Voltaire and Nietzsche, found su...")
• 21:05, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Female Priesthood (Created page with "Female priesthood, as currently conceived in mainline monotheistic religions, is a cultural and historical aberration. There is a fascinating article in Wikipedia on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordination_of_women ordination of women] which, if the reader is patient and thorough in reading and "drilling down" to source articles, clearly demonstrates the following points of interest to this issue: : Not every instance of ordained priesthood covered in the article is ac...")
• 21:03, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Father (Created page with "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the term "father" meant something. Or so the story goes. Few people, today, are sure what that meaning may have been. There is a rumor that an endangered species of humans, called Christians, have a concept of "father" that is connected in some mysterious way with another concept they call "God." When the curator of the World Museum of Natural History was queried as to what this might be, however, its response was "I dunno. Yo...")
• 21:02, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Family (Created page with "The post-modern world has determined that the classical definition of what constitutes a "family" (comprising a father, mother and one or more offspring - with an "extended family" covering more than two generations) is hopelessly out of date and utterly unworkable. It isn't simply that, in an age of a declining institution of marriage, less than half of "families" satisfy that definition, the whole idea that a father and mother have any kind of special rela...")
• 21:01, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Entitlement (Created page with "Entitlement can refer to a legal code (or clause), a social contract or a legally or socially sanctioned expectation. It can also refer to a narcissistic frame of mind aided and abetted by a culture, that indeed largely defines a culture. It can refer to something as trivial as a gratuity "earned" by a faithful patron of the corner pizza parlor, as large as a retirement pension or as comprehensive and ephemeral as "happiness" or even "eternal salvation." The late note...")
• 20:57, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Elites (Created page with "Every society is stratified in some manner. The simplest definition of elites is the people who occupy the highest stratum, and who have the greatest and deepest influence on the shape of society and of events. Of course, that's a fairly bookish definition, and it is probably of no help in identifying who the world's elites, in fact, are. If we think in terms of movie scenes, if we assume the dominance of Western nations and if we assume that "money talks", we can per...")