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Their Dream Is Our Reality

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Peter Venetoklis
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Have you ever taken a dive into postmodernism?

Britannica offers this definition:

characterized by broad skepticism, subjectivism, or relativism; a general suspicion of reason; and an acute sensitivity to the role of ideology in asserting and maintaining political and economic power.

Wikipedia, despite its unfortunate ideological capture, has an on-point deconstruction:

… is "a highly contested term", referring to "a particularly unstable concept", that "names many different kinds of cultural objects and phenomena in many different ways". It is "diffuse, fragmentary, [and] multi-dimensional".[6] Critics have described it as "an exasperating term" and claim that its indefinability is "a truism".[8] Put otherwise, postmodernism is "several things at once". It has no single definition, and the term does not name any single unified phenomenon, but rather many diverse phenomena: "postmodernisms rather than one postmodernism".

Word salads aside, it is at its core a rejection of objective reality in favor of individuals' "realities." What used to be called truths are relative and affected by individuals' perceptions and histories.

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