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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
...the same era that has brought us pluralism, relativism, uncertainties about identity, also brought with it a disturbing political nihilism and apathy along with a newly ubiquitous mass culture which is more or less the vehicle for a conformist ideology that rebuilds the authority that postmodernism sought to erase.
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So I understand you correctly: Are you suggesting that pluralism / relativism / uncertainties of the postmodern age will become external "authorities"? It sounds to me like your "ubiquitous mass culture" and "conformist ideology" serve as replacements for everything postmodernism hopes to retain: Do we become so pervasively integrated in our knowledge, political structures, and ideals that any sort of social or cultural diversity is wiped out? I suppose that if the "global village" that has resulted from increased technology progresses to its natural end, this would seem to be the case. Or am I misreading you?