Eli5: What is modernism and post-modernism?
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Deep topic. You should read “Explaining Postmodernism” by Stephen Hicks.
In a few words as I can manage, Modernism is the school of thought that led to science and medicine. It’s responsible for the acceleration of medical, scientific and technological development. It is where logic thrives.
Post-modernism is essentially a new age rehash of what the dominant thought process was before Modernism took hold; i.e., a theocratic, anti-logic, god-based way of seeing the world and ascribing morality to it.
Post-modernism seeks to deconstruct Modernism around the core tenet that objective reality is impossible to ascertain and that any attempt to do so will always yield subjective truths. The post-modernist school of thought used to be sophisticated, but it has metastasized into a parody of its former self, with all manner of low IQ idiots–leftists–decreeing all manner of chaotic, anti-reality crap, including that meritocracies are purposeless and that there is no such thing as biological sex.
Anyhow, read the book I recommended. It’s all in there.
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