Check out The Pomo Group

[Mitchell R Coffey]

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> very very funny.

Here's how they define "postmodernism".  Any you folk know anybody who believes
this stuff?

"Research postmodernism and you will find it embraces immediacy, performance,
indeterminacy, contradiction, chaos, ethical silence, and deconstruction.
Postmodernism seeks to destroy all moral criteria and replace it with nothing.
Since all things are relative, there is no truth. Language is manipulated
without conscience for ideological agendas and power struggles. Indeed, the law
has become a postmodern narrative. The ends justify the means when power is the
ultimate objective. Political correctness (a form of censorship) silences
opposition. All people are assumed to be hiding aspects of their character and
presenting themselves as an act. Perception is reality. A social group and its
language create individual identity. Scholarship is reduced to rhetorical
manipulation."

Mitchell Coffey
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Glendower: "At my nativity
                 The font of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
                 Of burning cressents, and at my birth
                 The frame and huge foundation of the earth
                 Shaked like a coward!"

Hotspur:    "Why, so it would have done at the same season
                 If your mother's cat had but kittened, though yourself
                 Had never been born."
                 ...

Glendower: "I can call spirits from the vasty deep!"

Hotspur:    "Why, so can I, or so can any man;
                 But will they come when you do call for them?"

                 - Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part One, III, i