fact: i promise that i am going to do my absolute best to not inject any Throughly Modern Millie lyrics randomly in this post (the songs are stuck in my head. if you have been around me the past couple of days you know.)
mmmm. so we have had a semester to understand what postmodernism is, so this means we should know what it is correct? well, let's see how well of a job i do of explaining it.
postmodernism is (in my opinion) a movement that leans toward objectivity that tries to show that there really is no supper myth or ultimate truth that unites all of man kind. it also takes the idea of not labeling to a far extreme - by focusing on one thing then one is marginalizing the "Other."
mmm. i guess this means i should explain what the other is. it is the opinion that you disagree with. easy peasy lemon squeezy.
you know what that means: you can't stop marginalizing people no matter how hard you try. how sad.
onward to binary opposites!! which basically means that for every opinion there is a counter. beautiful.
okay. i feel like i have summed up postmodernism up, but alas this only looks like it is about two hundred words long.
so. um. postmodernism is basically trying to blend in everything -- not trying to exclude anyone because there is no right nor wrong. nothing has to make sense. why? because, honestly, who cares?
thank you postmodernism for making up realize that our view of reality is not as real as it seems. oh and thank you BNW & 1984 for that also. sadly, according to postmodernism, there is no one reality, but many contradictory views of what is reality and truth.
i think that is what makes it's slightly appealing. well, that is why i find postmodernism so fascinating - it's complexity. it's like once you think you understand it something completely new and random idea is thrown at you and you think crap! how does this have to do with anything else? mmm. yeah. but i'm not going to lie....i will always enjoy something by the bard or j. austen way more.
