Postmodernism, which started in the late 1970s, is the school of thought that currently dominates Western society. It is a modified form of modernism, which originated in the early 20th century and led to atrocities such as the World Wars, eugenics, and modern art. Yet as evil as modernism was, its offspring is even worse.
When modernism first took hold, society still had a sense of what they had lost by abandoning traditional values. Art and architecture became dull, depressing, and ugly, partially for pragmatic reasons...but also as a collective traumatic reaction to industrialization. Giant tombstones known as skyscrapers entered existence, mass production removed the soul from human handiwork, and people knew life was dreary...but they resigned themselves to that reality.
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| "And they're all made out of ticky tacky, and they all look just the same...." |
While modernists lamented the loss of purpose and meaning in life, though, postmodernists attempt to celebrate the degradation of society and culture.
The postmodern aesthetic is childish...either using bright colors and wonky shapes or trying to be blatantly edgy and dark like the Satanic shoes pictured above, reflecting the tastes of a rebellious adolescent. Unlike modernism, postmodernism is a perpetual state of childish consciousness...a refusal to grow up and accept responsibility, and a refusal to acknowledge reality. Perhaps this is why homosexuality is so prevalent these days...because there is no greater responsibility than raising children, which homosexual relations cannot produce.
A post-truth world is a do-what-thou-wilt world...and from here we have nowhere to go but in a downward spiral unless society repents, but I doubt that will happen.
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