Tag: post-postmodernism
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a brief history of the meaning of life
Note: This is a conversation with ChatGPT 4o. Give me a brief history of the meaning of life. The question of the meaning of life has evolved across history. In ancient times, many cultures, including the Greeks, saw life’s purpose as tied to virtue, harmony with the cosmos, and pleasing the gods. For monotheistic religions…
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playfulness, sincerity, and meaning-making
Modernism, with its certainty, idealism, and structure, was turned on its head by postmodern skepticism and deconstruction. The postmodernists vowed not to rest until every system and grand narrative was burned to the ground. But the flames are dying out, giving way to the constructive playfulness of post-postmodernism. Where postmodernism was destructive, post-postmodernism gives us…