There’s a moment many people have when they first encounter postmodernism—not in a classroom, but in real life. You hear the language, the abstractions, the endless qualifications, and you’re left thinking: what is actually being said here?

I remember hearing Camille Paglia describing her first exposure to the French postmodernists—figures like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. She compared them to high priests, speaking in dense, ritualistic language that seemed more about performance than clarity. That resonated deeply with me. Listening to postmodern discourse often feels less like a search for truth and more like being initiated into an exclusive club where obscurity is mistaken for depth.

The Problem with a World Without Truth

At its core, postmodernism is skeptical of objective truth. It tells us that truth is constructed, that meaning is fluid, and that power shapes what we accept as reality. On the surface, that might sound intellectually liberating. But taken seriously, it leads to something far more troubling: a world without moral anchors.

If everything is relative—if every action can be........

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