Postmodernism

"Citizens of the Middle Ages and members of pre-modern tribal societies could live out their years without encountering anyone with another god, a contrary worldview, different folktales, dances or myths." If they did meet anyone with opposing or different views, they would conquer them and to convert them.In the Postmodernism world, everyone has different ideas, cultures and beliefs. Everyone's different ideas and beliefs are everywhere to see. You can't go on any website or even walk out of your house without seeing differences in people and how people think, act, look, and are. "We live increasingly in a world of interconnected differences-differences amplified and multiplied at the speed of electricity." There are now so many more ways of thinking now, and it is mostly accepted to have different opinions than other people.

All of the cultures are intermixing. It is interesting to think about this and how it affects people in everyday life. One person believes so many things, and it is interesting to think about where all of those ideas stemmed from. There are so many different shared beliefs now, in the Postmodernism world. We are forced to think and know about all of the different ways of thinking,. which, in my opinion, is a good thing.


"According to Jameson, Postmodern city-dwellers are alienated, living in hallucination, an exhilarating blur, a reality evaporating into mere images, spectacles, strange new warps in time and space, fixated on commodities, on products, on images... on bottles of Coca-Cola, collages of identical images of Hollywood stars such as Marylin Monroe, all sameness, all surface-all deathlessness." Today, everyone tries so hard to be different. People don't focus on the things that really matter. People focus on things that are materialistic and have no depth. People rely so much on the false images that the media and the world around them gives them. people don't think for themselves, according to this article. I disagree with this. I think that people do have depth. I think that these days, people are in a way forced to have depth and are forced to think for themselves. Yes, everyone is doing the same thing, but some, if not most people choose to think for themselves and do think for themselves. There is so much emphasis today on self-reflection, which is where people find out what they truly believed. In a way, people do have a hard time thinking for themselves because so many people are told what to believe. Also, everyone tries to be different, which is where I agree with this piece. Everyone tries too hard to be different, which makes everyone even more similar. I think that people should stop listening to what society is telling them to be and believe what they truly believe and live off of that.