Sunday, September 17, 2006

Pitts On the Deniers

The Pulitzer Prize-Winner notes:

Once upon a time, we all drew from the same body of fact. We may have constructed different truths, but they were all based upon commonly accepted facts. We all knew, for instance, that the shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986. From that, we could debate what the tragedy meant and we might or might not reach consensus, but as long as no one argued that it was really destroyed by aliens, we at least had the same frame of reference.

No longer, as the questions of whether there was really a terrorist attack on Sept. 11 make abundantly clear. So honest debate becomes nearly impossible and consensus, even more so. I mean, you may think a wall looks best in yellow, I may think it looks best in red. But if we can't agree on what yellow and red are or what a wall is, we have no basis for even arguing about it.

11 Comments:

At 17 September, 2006 10:00, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

Now those words, are perhaps the most concise I have ever seen, at defining this ENTIRE issue.

Wonderful piece.

TAM

 
At 17 September, 2006 12:35, Blogger nes718 said...

The Pulitzer Prize is an artifact of the controlled press and as such is being rendered obsolete.

 
At 17 September, 2006 12:38, Blogger shawn said...

The Pulitzer Prize is an artifact of the controlled press and as such is being rendered obsolete.

He's just becoming a parody of himself now.

(He also must've missed dog's comment.)

 
At 17 September, 2006 12:43, Blogger nes718 said...

Question: Why isn't there a Pulitzer Prize winner for Holocaust Revisionism? Will there EVER be?

 
At 17 September, 2006 14:04, Blogger shawn said...

Why isn't there a Pulitzer Prize winner for Holocaust Revisionism?

There's no Prize for "Shoddy Research".

 
At 17 September, 2006 14:16, Blogger nes718 said...

There's no Prize for "Shoddy Research".

Pulitzer = prize for shoddy research

 
At 17 September, 2006 14:18, Blogger nes718 said...

see, in order to win a pulitzer for a work of fiction you have to admit its a work of fiction

Not really. All that has to be done is something not the antagonist of the Zionist system or something that actually promotes it.

 
At 17 September, 2006 14:19, Blogger James B. said...

There's no Prize for "Shoddy Research".


Maybe the "Scholars" will come with one. "The Steven Jones Award for Imaginative Research".

 
At 17 September, 2006 14:50, Blogger shawn said...

Pulitzer = prize for shoddy research

Nesnyc, I'm really sorry to break it to you, but Holocaust denial (a more apt name) is as scientifically and historically sound as creationism.

 
At 17 September, 2006 22:13, Blogger Alex said...

He's just becoming a parody of himself now.

He really is, isn't he? Most of the time I know exactly what he's going to say even before he says it. And the few times that I DON'T know what he's going to say it's only because what he comes up with is even more extreme than what I was expecting.

 
At 18 September, 2006 13:36, Blogger The Artistic Macrophage said...

Nessie:

the sky is blue. The world is round. The sun is the center of our solar system.

TAM

 

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