[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

The term "postmodern" was hijacked by cabals of kooky Marxists when they noticed conservative and Christian thinkers using it to signify the collapse the ideologies of progress, the Enlightenment, the goofy secular humanism of modernity, and the shallow liberalism dominating the cultural elite. The End of the Modern World was the title of a book written by a conservative Catholic writer, Romano Guardini, in the 1940s.

What has come to be known as "postmodernism" is just a very bizarre, convaluted style of repackaging epistemological skepticism and moral relativism. The dissembling nihilism of this movement does very little to advance genuine knowledge. The flagrant omission of acknowledging the earlier conservative and Christian uses of the term "postmodern" suggest dishonesty or scholarly illiteracy.

Hence, the distortive use of the term "postmodernism" is worthy of one of our Twilight Zone awards for excessive left-wing kookiness.

[Liz]

Moral Relativist Shock Troops----the usual suspects including: abortion-worshipping Feminazis, the fully fornicating Playboy-Cosmo faction, secular humanists
who despise Christians, the ACLU-Christian baiters, Planned Parenthood and the population control cabal, the anti-family idealogues, aided and abetted by (1) a compliant liberal media,(2) academia which inculcates the Nation's youth with the idealogy, and, last, but not least (3) Hollywarped---stealth Christian-haters---who proselytize audiences without their knowledge or consent.

[Taliesan]

Well done.

In actual usage, "postmodern" is what pretentious gays at lunch in Manhatten say when they mean "fad".

[Buckhead]

You're Twilight Zone post is well said.

I have a bit of a problem with the author's nomenclature. Modernism as chronicled in Paul Johnson's Modern Times is the history of modernism, that is to say, relativism, in all fields of human endeavor, politics, law, psychology, painting, music, literature, architecture, etc., etc.

Postmodernism was a rejection of modernism and a return to classical forms, at least in architecture. There were some beautiful neoclassical buildings built in the80's under the guise of postmodernism. Now, this guy uses the term postmodernism to describe the nihilistic deconstructionism of late modernism.

It's all so confusing. In any case, they're a-holes, no matter the label. Stanley Fish, Mark Tushnet. Uggh.

Also, the term "gnutellafication" is a rather inelegant neologism, but I get and endorse the point. But we are in serious need of a better word than that.

[GOPJ]

Good one:

What has come to be known as "postmodernism" is just a very bizarre, convaluted style of repackaging epistemological skepticism and moral relativism. The dissembling nihilism of this movement does very little to advance genuine knowledge. The flagrant omission of acknowledging the earlier conservative and Christian uses of the term "postmodern" suggest dishonesty or scholarly illiteracy.

Hence, the distortive use of the term "postmodernism" is worthy of one of our Twilight Zone awards for excessive left-wing kookiness.