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What's the first thing that comes to your mind upon hearing the word "culture" as opposed to "pop culture"? The latter is about theaters, music, and arts; the former is about the way people in different environmental settings attempt to meet their basic needs (physical, psychological, social and spiritual). Do these ways look all the same? Of course not. "Connecting the Dots of Postmodernism" is about how these cultural differences have been leveraged by the opponents of biblical worldview (Platonic worldview as well) to justify moral, philosophical and epistemological relativism.
Furthermore, postmodernism is a reaction against modernism, the philosophical outcome of the cold calculation of the Enlightenment humanists of the 18th century. Just as the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on facts only (empirical or innate), was followed by the feeling-driven romanticism, postmodernism (i.e., the way it has evolved in America) is also a feeling driven romanticism of socialism and Marxism. It cares little about facts but, instead, is impelled by the feeling of moral outrage stemming from appraising society through metrics such as Critical Race theory/socialism/Marxism.
What makes these changes possible is the way postmodernists (a.k.a., deconstructionists) use language. After raising the specter of whether language is stable or instable, postmodernism wonders whether the fixed meaning of a text is waiting to be discovered or the meaning of a text is whatever the readers impose on it. Postmodernism opts for the outlook that language is instable and arbitrary, and the authors are hopelessly compromised by the power structure of their time; and since this is so, the "meaning" of a text depends on, in effect, whatever the readers say it is (a.k.a., reader-response theory).
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What's the first thing that comes to your mind upon hearing the word "culture" as opposed to "pop culture"? The latter is about theaters, music, and arts; the former is about the way people in different environmental settings attempt to meet their basic needs (physical, psychological, social and spiritual). Do these ways look all the same? Of course not. "Connecting the Dots of Postmodernism" is about how these cultural differences have been leveraged by the opponents of biblical worldview (Platonic worldview as well) to justify moral, philosophical and epistemological relativism.
Furthermore, postmodernism is a reaction against modernism, the philosophical outcome of the cold calculation of the Enlightenment humanists of the 18th century. Just as the Enlightenment, with its emphasis on facts only (empirical or innate), was followed by the feeling-driven romanticism, postmodernism (i.e., the way it has evolved in America) is also a feeling driven romanticism of socialism and Marxism. It cares little about facts but, instead, is impelled by the feeling of moral outrage stemming from appraising society through metrics such as Critical Race theory/socialism/Marxism.
What makes these changes possible is the way postmodernists (a.k.a., deconstructionists) use language. After raising the specter of whether language is stable or instable, postmodernism wonders whether the fixed meaning of a text is waiting to be discovered or the meaning of a text is whatever the readers impose on it. Postmodernism opts for the outlook that language is instable and arbitrary, and the authors are hopelessly compromised by the power structure of their time; and since this is so, the "meaning" of a text depends on, in effect, whatever the readers say it is (a.k.a., reader-response theory).