Let's explore the wacky world of postmodernism

What exactly is it and how does it shape and influence the way we live?

Consider the following vignette.

A scientist comes up to you at a party and informs you that all the world’s problems can be solved by science.

Suddenly a postmodernist detective emerges from the shadows, wrestles the man to the ground and pulls off what seems to be a mask.

The scientist is none other than the infamous vampire – Count Dracula. His fangs are laced with fresh blood and his eyes burn with malice and evil intent.

The scientist seemed on first inspection to be an honourable and trustworthy person and now his true vocation has been unmasked.

He is really a dreadful old bloodsucker on the prowl for innocent virgins who have left their garlic at home.

Pulling off the respectable masks is our first point of entry into the postmodernist mindset. In this sense many postmodernists take their cue from Friedrich Nietzsche. The German wordsmith contended that all people are really driven by the will to power. . .

At the end of the day scientists are no better than hustlers, pimps and gangsters. They are also driven by hidden, subterranean imperatives. They are masters of spin, manipulation and control.

We could say that postmodernists are suspicious people. They’ve listened to the politicians, the priests, the doctors, the technocrats and the scientists and they shrug their shoulders and smile ruefully.

“We’ve heard it all before and we’re not impressed.
Someone’s on the make and nobody’s coming clean.”


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