alright /lit/, so is postmodernism really dead? so far I've

this is the book board fag

>>10030594
who cares

your pic acute, OP

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>>10030594
yes. new sincerity took the guise of the sjw movement. they have found, as dfw put it, "single entendre principles": the furthering of diversity, universal health care, environmentalism, and enforced equality.

you may not like it, i may not like it, but the age of the kooky postmodern "nothing really matters, lol" philosophy has finally died. starting with obama and continuing into trump everything seems to "matter" now.

>>10031144
>starting with obama and continuing into trump everything seems to "matter" now.
elaborate, please

In my view, Trump is acutely postmodern

What's 9/11 again?

>>10031429
A bird flew into a Dairy Queen

>>10031429
George bush blew up a few buildings and blamed it on the sandnegroids

>>10030594
>>10031144
Fucking Americans. At least you have each other to re-enforce your circular channels of stupidity.

Look out! The barbarians are at the gates!

It's not "postmodernism" or some other spiritual term, it's spiritual and emotional necrosis. The crusting over of the emotions. It's a trend far deeper than just "postmodernism", although excessive irony is a part of it.

>>10031790
Idsh a consbirashy

>>10030594
>but nowadays 9/11 memes are cancer and don't trigger any emotions whatsoever, let alone amusement, and people laugh unironically at ISIS executions, make memes including hardcore porn
You are aware that you are talking about a very, very low number of losers on the internet, right?

>>10030594
Isn't "New Sincerity" just an excuse for depressive mediocrity?

>>10033389
kys

Postmodernism has been dead for a while but continues on in many people's imaginations because, as a kind of regressive illusion of a movement that was reliant on rhetorical tricks and presenting itself on a progressive scale that doesn't actually exist, many of those predisposed to actually pay attention to and document such things are blind to what has come next, which is already here and is gathering its strength, lurking, waiting for you to notice.

This explains why a chunk of that crowd, including many here, has latched on to this new sincerity concept, which is nice and was genuinely advanced and likely quite relevant; but new sincerity was merely a half-step that has been taken by the aforementioned lost intellectuals -- who know postmodernism is over, are looking for something new, and grasping at these emerging ideas (postpost, meta, blahblah) thinking one is bound to stick; but they ultimately do not understand what is going on in full, are unaware that their existence and ability to think rationally has been warped by the postmodern lens they still view the world through, and are therefore stuck in this midway existential artistic movement limbo, or what have you. So we have:

------------postmodernism

(time passing)

---New sincerity

(time passing and overlapping)

----------New paradigm I'm telling you about

Pardon roughness of model. So postmodernism and what comes afterward are two ladder rungs, and new sincerity is like a half-rung for all these half-blind people who have been intellectually hoodwinked by postmodernism and can't find their way out of the darkness.

There are some of us, perhaps many, who at the very least perceive the new paradigm I'm referring to, and I've seen people who are not me explain it on /lit/, so some know it's here and may be about to burst out. It has yet to be broken down in narrative format, though, so its foundations remain elusive. Also, too many of you are still caught up in the postmodern ruse and egalitarian zeitgeist and reddit-tier numale pussydom to be able to see it, let alone understand it, so I don't feel like opening it up to the peasant peanut gallery right now. But I just wanted to toss out the basic framework, partly for amusement and partly for my own benefit. Enjoy your evenings.

>>10033568
Lol

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>>10033568
This made me laugh

>>10031144
>seems to "matter"
American IRL politics seems more like an absurd satire of liberal democracy that an edgy comic book writer would come up with.