Postmodernism

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Postmodernism The postmodern condition can bee seen and experienced in our everyady lives. Anything from the decor of a room, to societal and economical shifts can be, and are, decribed as postmodern. While modernism looks beyond material truth and searches for abstract truth, postmodernism sees no abstract or universal truth. It attempts to subvert the distincton between "high" and "low" culture; likewise, it carries no distinctions between "good" and "bad." Unlike modernism, which sees history …

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…cts about the mid-20th century that have been pretty well concealed; for example, nuclear and boilogical testing on our own citizens, which is denied up to this day by classified government documents nobody is allowed to see. Not to mention the false realism about the nuclear arms race with the former Soviet Union; the U.S. dreamed up that they had more weapons than we did only to justify paying for nulcear defenses.