"Post-Modern Syllogism" by James W. Stoner


 

 

 
 Copyright © 2002 by James W. Stoner and Cultural Logic, ISSN 1097-3087 

Post-Modern Syllogism 

James W. Stoner 

  

One truth has gone  

And now anything goes, 

It depends on where you stand. 

What is left is imminent, 

Contingent reality, 

Devoid of external fixed points, 

There is no grand narrative, 

Just fragmented souls 

With microscopic stories, 

Stories that are storyless 

And can not be told, 

A language of an I, and of its own. 

Ultimate reality is created 

By social reality  

Just empty concepts and categories 

That extend nowhere, 

Except as arbitrarily assigned 

By the isolated unsubstantiated mind. 

Thus two red apples are not red 

Thus two plus two is five 

Thus right is wrong and wrong is right. 

                                                                                 Left is right of right.