blame it on PoMo

[Doug Millison]

". . . . aperspectival madness, the insane view that no view is 
better than another. Starting with the noble proposition that all of 
the multiple perspectives are to be treated farily and impartially 
('pluralism and rich diversity'), postmodernism slides, in its 
extreme forms, into the insidious notion that no perspective 
whatsoever is better than another, a confusion that results in 
complete paralysis of will, thought, and action. Madness it is 
indeed:  it claims no view is better than another, except its own 
view, which is superior in a world where nothing is supposed to be 
superior at all. And worse:  if no view is better than another, then 
the Nazis and the KKK are on the same moral footing as, say, art 
critics. 'Aperspectival madness' might fairly well describe much of 
the last two decades of art, art criticism, lit crit, and cultural 
studies. Irony is one of the last few places you can hide in a world 
of aperspectival madness--say one thing, mean another, therefore 
don't get caught in the embarrassment of taking a stand. (Since, 
allegedly, no stand is better than another, one simply must not 
commit--sincerity is death). So skip sincerity, opt for sardonic. 
Don't construct, deconstruct; don't look for  depth, just hug the 
surfaces; avoid content, offer noise--'surfaces, surfaces, surfaces 
is all they ever found,' as Bret Easton Ellis summarized the scene"

--Ken Wilber, _One Taste_
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