Word: dogma
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Durang shakes a stormier fist at God in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You. Those who do not find the play abominably blasphemous (and some may) will find it damnably funny. The parody, this time, is of Roman Catholic elementary school education and, by extension. Catholic faith, dogma and practice...
That, stripped of the nudging and stylistic razzle-dazzle that pad the book to length, is the gist of Wolfe's argument. It looks familiar, as travesties must. The dismantling of modernist dogma has been going on for ten years or more; it has been a prime staple of architectural criticism and practice throughout one of the most intense periods of building in American history. Everyone, including Wolfe, knows something about it. But he brings nothing new to the argument except, perhaps, a kind of supercilious rancor and a free-floating hostility toward the intelligentsia. The late bird...
Nevertheless, the men and women who laid the foundations of "the talking cure," as an early analysand called it, had to think of themselves as neutral observers of clinical evidence. Software like the id, the ego and the Oedipus complex became hardware; schools of thought grew into academies of dogma; schisms appeared; colleagues turned into cultists; and Wilhelm Reich, confusing metaphor with reality, saw space invaders...
...long-term development of inexhaustible resources is assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal and nuclear electricity generation--are imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case, he is right; at any rate, he is credible, and his pronuclear argument is sounder than most...
...stubborness is doing. Work together and we may not have a utopia, but at least we'll have something. "The world can survive," he intones, "only if we do. It's about time we confronted the future with confidence by adopting solutions that represent neither the past nor blind dogma." Which would be fine if Tsongas had some new solutions; all he can suggest is the blending of the two yearnings. Mix yellow and blue and you get green. It may not be as pleasant to you as yellow or blue, but you can live with green...