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> Now they look more like prophets.

Not to me. They just look like another group claiming grand and sweeping theories of truth.



That's somewhat ironic since "postmodernism is an intellectual stance or mode of discourse characterized by skepticism toward the 'grand narratives' of modernism."[1]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism


Postmodernism is ironic exactly because it is such a "grand narrative" that it is supposedly trying to avoid.




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