Interesting. I recently heard a priest mention the term “post-Modernism”, but I don’t know of it’s use in anything other than art. I’m wondering, therefore, if you might be using that term as I would use the term “New Theology” (nouvelle théologie)? If so, I think might agree with you. If not, please enlighten me as to how “post-Modernism” would differ from Modernism, and why you believe what you are reading is post-Modernism.
Sure. As we have seen throughout history the arts start an idea by expression then closely follows philosophy, then politics, sometimes scientific theory and finally theology.
Modernism was with us a long time and I believed flamed out in the early 90s (don’t quote me on that). With Modernism there were stated absolutes. Even though evil, communism, for example, was an absolute. It was an evil human made absolute. So those who agreed with communism followed its evil absolutes not matter how twisted. We opposed it of course contrasting our values based on our absolutes. It was a nice linear battlefield so to speak. Starting with the 90s and the whole new world order nonsense, I saw a shift to no absolute “value” system. Oh it was brewing here in the US since the 60s, but took a slow course to permeate 30 years later. We saw this post-modern non-system take form in universities as they slowly became hot beds of indoctrination.
This is the “value” system of post-modernism...morals, ethics are relative. Every person sorts our their own values. There are no absolutes. The Modernists at least had some absolutes, they were horrible and wrong but at least they had a system to confront and defeat. Not so with the relativistic approach. Now everyone thinks they are an island unto themselves. That is why we see morals out the window, cold hearts abound and everyone is out for themselves. Why not? Because we are all right within our own little individual systems.
The next step is obvious. With billions of “values systems” out there one, some a group will eventually will its will on others or complete anarchy will follow.