Postmodernism

Here's what Postmodernism reminds me of: Big Daddy Modernism established all the rules, stereotypes, and facts and now sulky teenager Postmodernism refuses to conform to this standard. Everyone is an individual, forming their own perceptions that shape their personal reality. Postmodernism lashes out at the idea that any one ideal, or metanarrative, can define the infinite numbers of realities or truths. Therefore, by labeling people according to any sort of metanarative, you are marginalizing the many intricate narratives that actually compose that person. Basically, it is impossible to define anything by one truth because everyone has a different definition. There can be no absolute truths because there is no possible way to account for the different perceptions. Metanarratives like religion, stereotyping, and science, suffer in the Postmodern world. The only reality we have access to is our own, and we should not in any way try and impose our reality on anyone else. These Metanarratives try to establish a center in society, a uniform ideal to which all can conform, but Postmodernism claims we live in a centerless society where all the different narratives coexist as all the cultures mingle. Trying to find a single center is futile in our current society because everyone is influenced in radically different ways. As one quote I found said, "There's this expression called postmodernism, which is kind of silly, and destroys a perfectly good word called modern, which now no longer means anything," (Twyla Tharp). Postmodernism negates the central structure of the modern world, reducing its certralistic ideals into a mere fallacy. There are too many variables to be accounted for, and a society with a center means a society without individuals. As long as there are independant minds, there is no chance for a center to dominate nor is there any need for one to.