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Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What's the Beginning of the Post Modern Era?

"I think you mark the beginning of the post modern era as the moment richard nixon removed the us. Dollar from the gold standard, which i think may strike a lot of people as weight," he says. "We enter a terrifying world in which there are no foundations, is no foundations in the money system." Since then, credit goes nuts and we go completely mad for buying things we can't afford.

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