Living in a Postmodernist Nightmare

A century from now, historians will look back on this period and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

I assume you are as frustrated as I am with how the left has completely embraced postmodernism. The lies, the projection, the denial of reality and the condemnation of truth and truth tellers as obsolete, evil and barriers to progress is maddening.

Postmodernism is largely an objection to the certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality. Postmodernists do not believe in objectivity or certainty, so in essence, this philosophy/ideology stems from a belief that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding of it, but rather, is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. For this reason, postmodernism is highly skeptical of explanations which claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually.

To be a postmodernist, one must believe:

• There is no universal or objective “truth”.

• History has no value in attempting to define “truth”.

• “Reality” can only be understood in the terms of the beholder – since “truth” cannot be objectively understood, it can only be experienced by the beholder and is therefore relative to that person’s point of view, at that specific point in time, and under those exact circumstances.

Postmodernists act as if there are no rules and immediately proceed to create and enforce rules to cancel people, end their careers, and shout loudly to prevent ideas from being distributed or heard. What is good one minute is bad the next and what is allowed depends upon who you are and what situation is being discussed.

This is something that has always fascinated me because the concept of contradiction does not exist in the postmodern world – while logic is based on the is or is not binary, in the mind of the postmodernist, a thing can be two things at or neither of those things at the same time.

In a postmodernist world, there are no standards.

Postmodernism lacks the certainty and optimism of any scientific, philosophical, or religious truth which explains everything for everybody – unfortunately this is a characteristic of the so-called “modern” mind – but for all the rules they try to create and enforce, the paradox of the postmodern position is this: in placing all principles under the scrutiny of its skepticism, it must realize that even its own principles are not beyond questioning.

Philosopher Richard Tarnas stated postmodernism “cannot on its own principles ultimately justify itself any more than can the various metaphysical overviews against which the postmodern mind has defined itself.”

Tarnas’ repudiation is exemplified every day in the postmodernist demanding absolute certainty and proof (they want a letter in Traitor Joe’s on handwriting, signed in his own blood, thanking Chairman Xi for the $5 million) from you while providing none of their own – or simply denying concrete evidence (think anything Hunter Biden or anything that links Scranton Joey to influence peddling).

Marx and Engels foreshadowed our current world when they shared their aversion for history, writing:

“In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past.”

Postmodernism is “post” – post history – because history is the most universal standard. Postmodernism denies there ever existed any universal or transcendent principles, but the history of mankind proves them wrong.

It seems counterintuitive that postmodernists are the creation of a successful and productive society, but they exist as a luxury appendage to a society that produces more than it consumes, thereby providing the time and money for these “intellectuals” to tear down the very mechanism giving them life. This type of reductive and destructive reasoning is totally worthless to society and helps no one in understanding anything. It serves only as a convenient excuse for the harsh reality of the world and the interactions of its inhabitants.

Postmodernism is the result of individuals seeking to explain their lack of success, lack of socioeconomic mobility and absence of meaningful achievement when measured against that of productive members of society and their individual self-determination. They are incapable of coming to terms with their own limitations; therefore, they must construct an alternative explanation for their lack of tangible value to society through a system of pseudo-logic.

Postmodernist intellectuals are the same people who will argue for days whether the color black is objectively racist depending on an individual’s perception of it at 9 a.m. on Tuesday morning but can’t comprehend the context of the simple and clear ideas expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. There is no lack of clarity in this, no question that the Founders believed in objective and universal truths – and that those truths exist.

A century from now, historians will look back on this period and wonder what the hell we were thinking.