1. It seems like mythmakers and technocrats have been operating in "different majesteria" for a while, to borrow a phrase from religion vs. science. Quant types haven't been doing much to query the empirical foundations of critical theory, for example.
Didn't you just say elite lawyers were "technocratic mythmakers"? Have they not been that way for long?
critical theory
Like, Frankfurt School stuff? I hadn't heard of much empiricism applied to that.
Posted by: TGGP | December 16, 2008 at 06:15 PM
There is no such word as "majesteria". I think you and the secular humanist nerds who use this term mean magisterium
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magisterium
I am afraid that without the guidance of Rome you must inevitably into error, relying as you do on mere human reason.
Posted by: John Sabotta | December 19, 2008 at 09:17 AM
John, thanks for the link and the correction.
Posted by: Hopefully Anonymous | December 21, 2008 at 01:42 AM