Can someone ELI5 postmodernism for me pls
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there's no such thing as truth. everything should be viewed through the lens of personal experience. how you feel matters to reality.
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and 's book Cynical Theories does a great job of explaining postmodernism to the layperson.
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Human institutions are flawed foundationally and are therefore epistemically invalid. Subjectivity is all that there is. We do not deduce facts, we create narratives.
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Modernism = explicitly justifying things in terms of basic values.
Postmodernism = people noticed that modernism itself can't be explicitly justified in terms of basic values.
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Modern contained links to previous works, while post modern contains links to links