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Philosophy hot take: we hate the postmodernists because they were right about the emptiness lurking beneath our entire universe of meaning. And because they offered no way out of the abyss they uncovered.
But I'm not sure we have any means of getting a grip on our current crisis if we don't accept that almost everyone lives an entirely mediated existence now. Any social theory that still presumes some tangible connection between cause and effect, reality and outcome, will fail.
In the end, postmodernism is probably true and utterly ruinous. Which is why it's so easy to hate.
But the thing so many fail to realize is that the postmodernists weren't celebrating the collapse of truth; they were merely diagnosing it. Correctly.
Screw it: maybe I just need to write a big piece defending the postmodernists but also acknowledging the tragedy they unearthed. But who actually earns to read that?
Wants*
