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[jbor at bigpond.com]

On 13/10/2005, at 1:29 AM, François Monti wrote:

> Well, I'd argue that postmodernism being a theory about the world we 
> live in as well as being the tag applied to our era (or at least the 
> post WWII era), people who live(d) in the era are/were, consciously or 
> not, postmodernists. They might have no clue about this "philosophical 
> construct", but if this construct bears any resemblance to the "real" 
> world, then they are postmodernists.

I think this is a misunderstanding of postmodernism. Yes, postmodernist 
writers and theorists observe, describe, critique a world (or worlds) 
labelled as postmodern, but it doesn't then follow that everybody in 
that world is also a postmodernist theorist. Just because they're 
studied by microbiologists doesn't qualify parameciums as 
microbiologists. ... And George Bush sure ain't no postmodernist.

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