The "real" problem... as I perceive
Street Art by Ultraklm Back in graduate school, in the 90s, I found myself surrounded by postmodernist ideas. I remember being really excited by the liberating possibilities of looking at the world through this particular lens. I was a proponent at first, but later came to see the problems with postmodern thinking. I could already see the how this ideological framework was being taken to extremes. I began to understand why there was a reaction against it. Now I look around and see how postmodernism has come to define the entire culture I find myself in. This mindset has become so pervasive as to be "self-evident" to most people -- an ideological norm that is no longer questioned. Postmodernism has shaped the political landscape in ways that are undermining the basis of liberation, democracy. As the world transform, in all its technological glory, I am left wondering if any of this really matters. What is postmodernism? It means looking at the world with skepticism...