Postmodernists believe that any metanarrative succumbs to the same subjective arbitrariness. They deny the legitimacy of all hierarchies and all hierarchical ordering. When Pluralists adopt this belief, they may be hypersensitive to perceived instances of judgment as “better” or
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“valuable” in human terms. According to Wilber, radical postmodernism leads to what he calls “Boomeritis (2003).” In the extreme case, postmodernists assert with absolute certainty that there is no position from which to judge anything. They do not yet recognize the inherent
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self-contradiction in their assertion. It is, of course, a form of judgment and hierarchical ordering of values as those who disagree clearly have a less evolved view from theirs."
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literally a misreading, the "collapse of metanarratives" was a descriptive claim made by Lyotard about life-in-postmodern-times. the postmodernists themselves were quite capable of Judgement (the book Lyotard wrote after Pomo Condition was entirely about Justice)
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the hierarchies stuff was probably D&G and they too are very capable of Judgement, even tho one may disagree
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The West is like an generation that just discovered emptiness. Then got real carried away, completely forgetting form.
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