metaphysics<\/a>, to epistemology, to esthetics, to ethics, to politics, to economics.<\/p>\nIn order to get any kind of grasp on postmodernism, one must grasp first that postmodernism doesn\u2019t want to be defined. Its distinguishing characteristic is in the dispensing of all definitions \u2014 because definitions presuppose a firm and comprehensible universe.<\/p>\n
You must understand next that postmodernism is a revolt against the philosophical movement that immediately preceded it: Modernism.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re told by postmodernists today, that modernism and everything that modernism stands for is dead.<\/p>\n
Thus, whereas modernism preached the existence of independent reality, postmodernism preaches anti-realism, solipsism, and \u201creality\u201d as a term that always requires quotation marks.<\/p>\n
Whereas modernism preached reason and science, postmodernism preaches social subjectivism and knowledge by consensus.<\/p>\n
Whereas modernism preached free-will and self-governance, postmodernism preaches determinism and the rule of the collective.<\/p>\n
Whereas modernism preached the freedom of each and every individual, postmodernism preaches multiculturalism, environmentalism, egalitarianism by coercion.<\/p>\n
Whereas modernism preached free-markets and free-exchange, postmodernism preaches Marxism and its little bitch: statism.<\/p>\n
Whereas modernism preached objective meaning and knowledge, postmodernism preaches deconstruction and no-knowledge \u2014 or, if there is any meaning at all (and there\u2019s not), it\u2019s subjective and ultimately unverifiable.<\/p>\n
In the words of postmodernism\u2019s high priest Michel Foucault: \u201cIt is meaningless to speak in the name of \u2014 or against \u2014 Reason, Truth, or Knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
Because according to Mr. Foucault again: \u201cReason is the ultimate language of madness.\u201d<\/p>\n
We can thus define postmodernism as follows:<\/p>\n
It is the philosophy of absolute agnosticism \u2014 meaning: a philosophy that preaches the impossibility of human knowledge.<\/p>\n
What this translates to in day-to-day life is pure subjectivism, the ramifications of which are, in the area of literature, for example, no meaning, completely open interpretation, unintelligibility.<\/p>\n
Othello<\/em>, therefore, is as much about racism and affirmative action as it is about jealousy.<\/p>\nSince there is no objective meaning in art, all interpretations are equally valid.<\/p>\n
Postmodernism is anti-reason, anti-logic, anti-intelligibility.<\/p>\n
Politically, it is anti-freedom. It explicitly advocates leftist, collectivist neo-Marxism and the deconstruction of industry, as well as the dispensing of inalienable rights to property and person.<\/p>\n
There is, however, a deeply fatal flaw built into the very premise of postmodernism, which flaw makes postmodernism impossible to take seriously and very easy to reject:<\/p>\n
If reason and logic are invalid and no objective knowledge is possible, then the whole pseudo-philosophy of postmodernism is also invalidated.<\/p>\n
One can\u2019t use reason to prove that reason is false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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