THE TENETS OF POSTMODERNISM (“ANTI-LAW: WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH”) (‘the min

THE TENETS OF POSTMODERNISM (“ANTI-LAW: WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH”)

(‘the mind of the woman’)

THE FALSE PROMISE OF ENLIGHTENMENT EQUALITY – Disillusionment with modernism – Postmodernists rue the unfulfilled promises of science, technology, government, and religion. DESPITE ITS MATERIAL ACHIEVEMENTS.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – There is no absolute truth – Postmodernists believe that the notion of truth is a contrived illusion, misused by people and special interest groups to gain power over others.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – Truth and error are synonymous – Facts, postmodernists claim, are too limiting to determine anything. Changing erratically, what is fact today can be false tomorrow.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – Rationalization – Traditional logic and objectivity are spurned by postmodernists. Preferring to rely on opinions rather than embrace facts, postmodernist spurn the scientific method.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH: Traditional authority is false and corrupt – Postmodernists speak out against the constraints of religious morals and secular authority. They wage intellectual revolution to voice their concerns about traditional establishment.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH: Collective Ownership – They claim that collective ownership would most fairly administrate goods and services.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – Morality is personal – Believing ethics to be relative, postmodernists subject morality to personal opinion. They define morality as each person’s private code of ethics without the need to follow traditional values and rules.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – Globalization – Many postmodernists claim that national boundaries are a hindrance to human communication. Nationalism, they believe, causes wars. Therefore, postmodernists often propose internationalism and uniting separate countries.

WHATEVER I CAN GET AWAY WITH – All religions are valid – Valuing inclusive faiths, postmodernists gravitate towards New Age religion. They denounce the exclusive claims of Jesus Christ as being the only way to God.

OPPOSITION ETHICS (Liberal ethics) – Postmodernists defend the cause of feminists and homosexuals. (Females defend children and weak regardless of merit)

FEAR OF BEING LEFT BEHIND: Pro-environmentalism – Defending “Mother Earth,” postmodernists blame Western society for its destruction.