Postmodernism - Postmodern Worldview

Postmodernism. The Postmodern Worldview is difficult to define, because to define it would violate the postmodernist's premise that no definite terms, boundaries, or absolute truths exist. In this article, the term postmodernism will remain vague, since those who claim to be postmodernists have varying beliefs and opinions on issues.

Are nationalism, politics, religion, and war the result of a primitive human mentality? Is truth an illusion? How can Christianity claim primacy or dictate morals? The list of concerns goes on and on especially for those affected by a postmodern philosophy and lifestyle. For some, the questions stem from lost confidence in a corrupt Western world. For others, freedom from traditional authority is the issue. Their concern centers around the Wests continued reliance on ancient and traditional religious morals, nationalism, capitalism, inept political systems, and unwise use and adverse impact of promoting trade offs between energy resources and environment, for economic gain.

To the postmodernist, the Western world society is an outdated lifestyle disguised under impersonal and faceless bureaucracies. The postmodernist endlessly debates the modernist about the Western society needing to move beyond their primitiveness of ancient traditional thought and practices.

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While there are significant disagreements among the various expressions of the postmodern worldview there is a key belief that characterizes all of them: an acute awareness of our situatedness as humans. postmoderns deny that there is any overarching story, or metanarrative, to the world. Therefore, we all come from a perspective, or bias, that is shaped by the culture, or the little stories, we inhabit. This is the clearest difference between postmodernism and most other worldviews. Whereas the central concern of other worldviews is what the real world actually is, the focus of postmodernism is on how we perceive and how we describe what the world is.

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[madamimadamimadam]

@itsVINCEC He's actually pretty damn accurate in his description of postmodernism. Sure, there may be a bias because he works for a group affiliated with religion, but that doesn't mean you can immediately take whatever he says and discard it because of one specific aspect of his personality. This talk was practically devoid of religion except in describing it, in the postmodern sense, as unnecessary, which is true.

Stop being reactionary for the sake of being reactionary.

[alexjohnc3]

Oh god the bullshit. It burns.

[FeelingFreshSon]

@rafaelperezprat

non-sequiturs? I dunno, postmodernism is fun, unlike modernism. Ism words are silly though.

[mbherold24]

Postmodernism does define itself as does not want to accept truth and reality. Then, everything is vague. Here some truths: 1) We need air to breath to live. 2) There is day and night.  3) Eating and drinking is required for being alive. 4) This video is on You Tube. 5) Posting You Tube video require internet access and electricity. 6) The speaker speaks English. 7) Posting this comment require me to type something in the comment box. Postmodern is a hoax in reality.

[rafaelperezprat]

@FeelingFreshSon what would the appeal be?



[NearVSMello]

I knew this was a christian video the moment I saw that guy with the disturbing church smile on his face.

[MistahWagwan]

REMODERNISM !!! NOT Postmodernism.

[kblflivingston]

mmmmmmm sorry but this guy completely missed the point.

[FeelingFreshSon]

Post modernism is an emotion more than anything else...if you don't see the appeal of post modernism you probably won't really understand it.

[ReflectWorshipMusic]

interesting. been doing some research on postmodrnism today. thanks!

[AtheistWoman]

@verwoestijning Awesome!

[AtheistWoman]

Postmodernism is a politically correct, incoherent, absurd denial of reality. And it certainly isn't invariably allied to atheism; the so-called New Atheist movement is strongly anti-postmodernist in outlook, as postmodernism is the enemy of objective science and rational inquiry. There are both religious and agnostic/atheist proponents of postmodernism; the theology of the former tends to be surpassingly silly and doesn't sit well with those who take the Bible to mean what it actually says.