mathmission
01-23-2007, 09:10 AM
Over the past few days I've been helping Kat with her paper about postmodernism. She was given a 12 page paper assignment on the first day of class, and had one week to complete it. I've been reading the book that she must sumarize. After doing so, I've come to the following conclusion about postmodernism:
Postmodernism:
Postmodernism is the bastard emo child of logic. Like it's father, logic, it tries to make something out of the world. It tries to understand and break apart each and everything that exists. However, unlike logic, postmodernism tends to make it's own rules. Like a child, it claims its own validity simply because it can. The famous phrase "I think, therefore I am," seems to apply to postmodernism, as it believes it exists, and therefore believes it should be. Quite the opposite is true.
Like its father, postmodernism builds its frame of thought on definitions. However, unlike its valid father, postmodernism defines itself as an un-definable term. Again like a child, postmodernism fails to provide proper evidence of true thought, true process, or true validity. Postmodernism is a philosophy (if you can call it that) based on definitions that are un-definable, and uses that very description as its un-definable definition. Imagine a child saying "I know I'm valid because you can't define me, and because you can't define me, I'm definable in the sense that I have no definition."
Postmodernism:
Postmodernism is the bastard emo child of logic. Like it's father, logic, it tries to make something out of the world. It tries to understand and break apart each and everything that exists. However, unlike logic, postmodernism tends to make it's own rules. Like a child, it claims its own validity simply because it can. The famous phrase "I think, therefore I am," seems to apply to postmodernism, as it believes it exists, and therefore believes it should be. Quite the opposite is true.
Like its father, postmodernism builds its frame of thought on definitions. However, unlike its valid father, postmodernism defines itself as an un-definable term. Again like a child, postmodernism fails to provide proper evidence of true thought, true process, or true validity. Postmodernism is a philosophy (if you can call it that) based on definitions that are un-definable, and uses that very description as its un-definable definition. Imagine a child saying "I know I'm valid because you can't define me, and because you can't define me, I'm definable in the sense that I have no definition."