2. Postmodernism
from Daniel Keeran, MSW
www.empathyforu.com
Thiscanbeobservedacrossdisciplinesbutgenerallyreferstotheabsenceofbelie
finanythingthatcannotbeobserved. The following is a list of how postmodern
thinking can be recognized.
1. In literature and film, it is the absence of spaces between words,
traditional rules, or of a storyline in fiction works and tending more toward a
collage.
2. In painting or sculpture art or musical composition, it is the absence of
rules altogether or of any rules pertaining to how art should appear in order
to be understood or valued by anyone or only by the artist.
3. In politics or government, it is the absence of rules or any rules
pertaining to values or morality or to what constitutes a liveable society.
Practicality and inclusiveness are deemed to be the endgame. Government
is recommended to be by direct referendum, and media news and
university education is distrusted.
4. In architecture functionality and inclusivity are the only determining
factors for creating a structure. Aesthetics is solely at the discretion of the
funder or owner.
5. In history, social sciences, sociology, and anthropology, it is the absence
of ideas pertaining to human value, and the devaluation of these ideas in
the past, present, or future.
6. In theology, it is disbelief in anything unseen, such as a god or gods or of
anything spiritual, and the absence or reduction of beliefs and values.
7. In philosophy and psychology, it is the absence of the notion or reduction
of ideas pertaining to intrinsic worth or of any ideas pertaining to or
requiring consciousness, including ideas themselves.
