Postmodernism Debate

Way to often people confuse what would be nice to have with what is possible to have.Postmodernism unfortunately must often take the heat from those people.Postmodernism is an observation is a critique of the absolute frames of references. It's not an atempt to claim how the world is but rather a tool to hack reality.In that sense no people on HN should be against postmodernism but rather understand it instead of just showing their ignorance.

Care to elaborate a bit on the Postmodernism part ?

Can you elaborate on the post-modernism comment?

What do you mean by 'postmodern'? Is this a real criticism of what they are saying?

Nowadays postmodernism is mostly used to portray someone and then deploy a critique. It is a rhetorical offensive tool.I understand your need to defend left-leaning coders and to understand the ideological underpinnings of modern science, but I suggest you update your conceptual framework, just as you should be wary using an unsupported browser.

That's not what "postmodernism" means. Care to try again?

That's a very good description of postmodernism, isn't it?

I think it's beyond postmodernism, it's not only performative but uneducated :)

Is this still post-modern or is it post-irony already?

I won't try to define postmodernism, but I'm pretty sure a significant part of it has to do with abandoning traditional modes of operation and freestyling a bit with your worldview.I don't question that the problems you're describing are problematic, but what do they have to do with postmodernism? It seems like in the cases you're describing, the postmodern approach would be to call into question whether the abstractions in use ("value" in this case) are ap