Postmodernism Is Impossible For Me To Accept

To truly represent postmodernism, I cannot say what postmodernism is or is not. To be postmodern is to accept that all interpretations of the same piece of media or experience are different, and none of them can be blindly accepted as true or correct. Postmodernism cannot be constricted to a definition, and must be explained as a concept instead of a term.

Postmodernism is a constantly changing way of looking at the world without definite facts or personal biases. Because it is always changing, and relative to personal view, no one can fully understand postmodernism. Postmodernism argues that there is no truth, that logic and reason are not always correct, and that human nature is not innate, but instead a representation of the societie's impulses and culture.

This seems problematic to me, and probably many others, as our whole society is founded on truth, logic, and reason. If there is no absolute truth that can define a particular situation, than who is to say whether someone's actions are morally correct, or if something even happened at all. It seems as if postmodernism is rejecting our conceived notion of human nature, a reliance on truth and reason, by asserting that there is no human nature, and we only rely on truth and reason because we are brought up in a mediated world.

As a person who values the role of science in increasing the understanding in the world, even a moderate postmodernist appears to reject the notion of "science" and factual knowledge. To a postmodernist, there is no difference between a apparently preposterous view that the sun orbits around the Earth and the currently accepted solar system model. Neither can be correct, and neither should be valued as better. Postmodernism values the idea that objects and actions have no meaning, and the only meaning they carry is meaning that we bestow upon them.

I find postmodernism problematic, and cannot accept its beliefs, as it does not value the scientific method. It does not value evidence gathered from repeated tests. It does not value the absolutism of basic physical realities. I understand that scientific understanding changes, and events cannot be predicted, as many events are random, but rejecting all facts as opinions is not a valid response. When a philosophy says that gravity is just an opinion, and that things fall to the Earth only because the media and others around us believe it to happen, I am unable to agree with the philosophy.