Postmodernity: When Progress Becomes Poisonous

Explaining the shift from collective self-confidence to jadedness

Photo by Camille Brodard on Unsplash

It’s a pretentious cliché to talk at all about postmodernity, let alone about how late-industrial cultures incorporate cynicism and apathy, implicitly taking truth to be relative and subjective. It’s another cliché to say that postmodernity was only a fad, and that we’re…