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If You’re a Postmodernist, Please Don’t Make Any Moral Truth Claims or Declarations
…including against oppression or marginalization
You probably have strong opinions. You probably wouldn’t be on a platform like Medium if you didn’t. You probably have strong opinions on religion, philosophy, politics, justice, equality, and so forth.
Okay, but if you’re a postmodernist…
They are just opinions. Nothing more. And they carry no more weight than mine or anyone else’s.
You can’t claim anything is right or wrong — if you’re a postmodernist.
Not with a straight face anyway.
To the initiated, a postmodernist is someone who has been influenced (I would say corrupted) by the likes of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, and Jean-François Lyotard. The latter being the one who provided perhaps the best and most succinct (albeit admittedly oversimplified) definition of postmodernism…
“Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives.” — Jean-François Lyotard
Postmodern thought is fundamentally characterized by its skepticism towards the grand narratives and ideologies…
