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Understanding Post-modernism

I have written before on post-modernism , but not quite so directly. I have recently developed a new way to understand it historically speaking, so that one can get a better grasp of what it is, how it got here, what it means, and where it is going.   Probably more often than not, when someone gives you an explanation on what post-modernism is, you will likely hear something like, “it is the idea that everyone has their own truth” or something to that nature. I think it is helpful to have more than this description. It is helpful to know where post-modernism came from in order to give it less of an authority. If we know where something came from, then it seems to reduce the power that it has. This is why the word  mystery  exists. If  knowledge is power , at least in some sense, then taking the mystery away gives some authority and/or power over such. One of my favorite quotes is from Jacques Cousteau, who said, “If we knew what was there, then we wouldn’t have to go...