Postmodernism??

Okay well we've been talking about postmodernism this whole semester so you'd think finally defining it would be easy. But, if anything I think Postmodernism for Beginners should have taught us how difficult a concept it is to grasp. After all, the entire book is 300 pages of questions just about trying to understand postmodernism. Of course, I can't put just that for my blog so I’ll try my best to summarize it in a long rant of random thoughts.

I think the central concept of postmodernism, if anything is about how society really has no central point. In our lifetime, we have seen huge leaps in technology that now make information from all over the globe available within seconds. Through all this information, we have been introduced to ideas and cultures very different from our own. We have been forced to admit that while our way may be right to us it is not the only way, and nor can we prove anyone’s belief is wrong. Maybe the moon is just a big celestial rock or maybe a Native American god vomited it. We have learned to accept all ways and open our minds to every culture and idea not just focus on one central truth. I believe this is the key concept in Postmodernism.

Im really not sure what else to say. To me that is pretty much what postmodernism is all about, abandoning the central ideas of the past and opening are minds o accept other influeneces from around the world. We no longer had a central them to our life but many small metanarratives. That is postmodernism is a nutshell