But using the term 'understand' is giving myself a ton of leeway. Postmodernists in my mind seemed like they were just a bunch of paranoid assholes who had nothing better to do but bring the Modernists down. It felt as if there were to be argument, their only defense would be The System.
I just didn't like the fact that they were the opposite of the Modernists, and that they had radically different ideas, but as we watched examples of what they actually meant, I think I have found a completely different view.
In the film Syriana, Tim Blake Nelson is confronted about corruption in the oil company. He then goes on to explain that corruption is everywhere and everything. The reason that we have rules against corruption is so we can actually BE CORRUPT.
We change things and bend them and makes things so we can break them. We are influenced by everything, and we can't escape it, and that's exactly what Postmodernists are saying! They just want others to accept it.
Even though I feel as if they can come of apathetic, or kind of 'all knowing', I still really like what they have to say about certain topics. I think that they really have great points.
I agree with your ideas on postmodernism and rules. I really did not know much about postmodernism and couldn’t give any form of definition if I had to. It was the idea of the system of systems that caused me to get some form of grip on the ideas of postmodernism. The scene from the movie on corruption was extremely true in a multitude of ways. The whole idea of rules being there only so that we can break them applies to several different situations from small communities like in the school to full on international relations between countries. In a way it almost defends corruption in that corruption is really the only way to get anything done.
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