Eli5: What is modernism and post-modernism?

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Eli5: What is modernism and post-modernism?

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Answer 1

Reductive but effective:

Modernism is *the drawing of a line*: “That was then, this is now”. We’re going to change our society deliberately, and for the better.

Postmodernism is *the questioning of all frame narratives* because language and culture can never fully describe reality—inherent to every system is that there’s something it cannot contain. The notion of “progress” is itself culturally determined and fundamentally inadequate.