A. Postmodernism is a dead philosophy that still rules the #mainstreaming.
Q. Zombie ideology.
A. Then we are zombies…
Q. Speak for yourself 🤣 I’ve rejected postmodernism entirely. I’m interested in natural law now, processes that hold true outside human consciousness.
A. That’s just what a zombie would say. Postmodernism aharrhhh…
Q. No, you are 💯 wrong.
A. Ahrrra goes the zombie… Did you read the link to see if it’s relevant? 🙂
Q. Yes. I feel you are being a full cup. Let the tea flow.
A. Postmodernism is a discourse characterized by scepticism toward grand narratives, rejecting epistemological certainty, the stability of meaning, and the emphasis on ideology as a mechanism of truth… (cue zombie groans…)
Have you considered that your embrace of “natural law” might just be another way of doing the same thing? Ahrrrer goes the zombie.
It’s a tricky bind we all face. Maybe the first step out of this mess is revisiting modernism. Modernism (though, fair warning, it’s a bad article).
Q. I’m rejecting industrial civilization. That means rejecting postmodernism and modernism. Adam Smith, Hegel, Marx, Bakunin, all of them. I’m going deeper, looking at the foundations they all built upon. I’ll keep Kropotkin and the naturalists, but I’m done with “isms.” I may agree with aspects of certain ideas but never fully, and never blindly. I’m interested in natural law because of its raw objectivity, this is in total opposition to postmodernism, but it shares some similarities with modernism.
A. So… back to modernism then? Let’s reboot it 🙂
“Iisms” are just ways of thinking. You have one, or you are a zombie… ahrrrahhh.
To reject “isms” as controlling forces is itself a postmodern move—zombie trap! 😉
Q. I agree with some aspects of modernism, but not all. I’d argue that subscribing to any “ism” makes you a zombie because you’re outsourcing your thinking. We need critical thinkers and people who question.
A. That’s headfirst into the zombie trap. You might need a fresh perspective to climb out 😉
Hint: #nothingnew, though probably not in the way you think. Fresh thinking on old issues.
Q. Hamish Campbell, unless you’re starting a cult, not every viewpoint outside your own is zombie 🧟♀️.
A. You’re not thinking critically here—that statement is postmodernism in action, which, yes, makes it… zombie thinking! Read the articles, reflect, and build on the ideas instead of rejecting them outright. Don’t be a zombie 🙂
P.S. #nothingnew is a way out of this trap—it’s deliberately challenging. Brains are for thinking, not food. History isn’t baggage; it’s a toolkit. Use it, or lose it. We’ve lost too much already. Rethinking modernism might just be a way out of this mess.
Dogmatism is the unfortunate outcome of mainstreamed postmodernism… who would’ve thought?
Q. They imply the opposite—it’s quite paradoxical 😋. Ironic is a better word than paradoxical.
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