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The Book Club: Everything, All The Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern

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The Art of Post Modernism

Post modernism is a liberation from the earnestness of modernism, which was opposed to ornament. In a way, this e lhecitan embrace of fun also means it's an embrace of artificiality. The enemies of post modernism would say there's nothing fun about undermining truth in western civilization. But j s and silliness and frivolity and a refusal to take anything seriously seems to be something that's part of what we call post modernism as an exess of things. Andand that spirit you'd identify with.

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