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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Conniry #6: Impossibility of Monolithic Definitions
6) I said that it is impossible to ascribe a single definition to our age—such as “postmodern,” and proposed instead the term “emerging age.” Be prepared to explain why I made such a proposal.
It is impossible to ascribe a single definition to our age—such as “postmodern” because there is not a single, unified direction that our age is moving in at the moment, and we are too mired in the “fog of war” to see what it is moving towards.
Other than the most banal of commonalities, there are no commonalities, and even things that appear to be alike now have yet to take their final shape and thus defy neat categorizations. At best, our age can only be described as “emerging.”
It is impossible to ascribe a single definition to our age—such as “postmodern” because there is not a single, unified direction that our age is moving in at the moment, and we are too mired in the “fog of war” to see what it is moving towards.
ReplyDeleteOther than the most banal of commonalities, there are no commonalities, and even things that appear to be alike now have yet to take their final shape and thus defy neat categorizations. At best, our age can only be described as “emerging.”
-CL