Mr. Moderate

When he derived his Theory of Relativity, Albert Einstein unwittingly gave birth to postmodernism. Einstein asserted that, in physics, there was no privileged observation point. Every observer observed facts according to their point of observation, and differences in observation were explainable by the differences in the points from which the observers observed things.

The above idea means a lot in the context of physics. But postmodernism takes that idea and extends it in unjustifiable ways to assert that every idea is unprivileged, and that nobody has a better view of the facts of any given matter than does anybody else. At the end, postmodernism denies that objective facts even exist at all. To a dedicated postmodernist, every idea is the opinion of one person, and no person is privileged by having the “correct” idea. This leads to utter rubbish in everything written by any postmodernist.

I classify postmodernism as a religion because it doesn’t fit well into philosophy and it clearly doesn’t belong anywhere else. Once a person’s mind is corrupted by establishing a postmodernist foundation, such a person is no more rational than is any fundamentalist of any given religious persuasion. And their disconnection from the objective reality that surrounds all human beings is just as acute, if not more so.

To me, postmodernism is my despised “left wing” or “liberal” religion, while fundamentalism is my despised “right wing” or “conservative” religion. Once again, I classify myself in the middle between those two extremes.

I will not say that postmodernist thinkers have nothing to contribute to human civilization. After all, even a blind pig can find an acorn on occasion. But whatever value they have must be discerned by those of us who are unblinded by their religious mantras.

One thing of value that comes from postmodernist thought is a substantial justification against discrimination against anybody for any arbitrary reasons. Such thinking is clearly a good idea. But of course, like most moralists, postmodernists won’t give the time of day to anybody who disagrees with them. Instead, they will toss out accusations of bigotry left and right, and refuse to engage in intellectual debate in accordance with any acceptable set of rules. Such behavior clearly qualifies as religious.

One final note: when most conservative talk show hosts complain about “liberals” or “liberal thinkers,” they are really complaining about postmodernists. Most people on the left do not adhere to moral relativism, but moral relativism is the only possible morality for a postmodernist. So, conservative talk show hosts accuse “liberals” of being “moral relativists” in an attempt to sway us folks in the middle to agree that we must be conservatives since we clearly disagree with “liberalism” (or at least, the straw-man liberalism of postmodernism). Well, just because you are not a postmodernist (and you should not be), that does not require that you be a conservative (and you should not be that either). A really basic part of why I’m writing this blog is to convince you folks that not only is there room in the middle, but us folks in the middle are the true majority here in these United States.