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There is a certain tendency among modern coffee-shop philosophers to refer to a sort of vague trend of thought as "Postmodern". I am at a loss for exactly what this means, for it seems that there is even a difference between "postmodernism" and "postmodernity". I fear we may have over-labeled philosophy. I've made numerous attempts to understand exactly what postmodern(add your suffix here) exactly is, and found numerous conflicting answers in a jumble of long words in extraordinarily complex sentences. If language no longer has meaning then it is the fault of the very same who say it has none: because they do so in mountains of big talk while swimming in an ocean of falsehood.

Out of all of this I have discovered that there are rather two types of what I shall call, for the sake of simplicity, postmodernity. There are basically two kinds of it and, when I say basically, I am truly making a broad generalization. Postmodernity seems to be a complex and multifaceted thing, truly a Labyrinth. Perhaps it even has a minotaur?
Whatever the case of horrid beasts that may or may not lurk in the dark folds of postmodernity, it is necessary to make broad generalizations about it. Much as we see the Labyrinth as a giant maze, and not X number of right turns, Y number of left turns, and a golden thread stretched through it, so we must not see postmodernity, if we seek to make any meaningful progress, in it's many details. One would think the broadminded thinkers would appreciate broad generalizations. I have noticed it is not always that way, probably because the broadminded thinkers are most opposed to making any progress in anything.
The two general sorts of postmodernity which I see are relational postmodernity and intellectual postmodernity. Both are interconnected, much as two spiderwebs may mingle together, but both are also separate, much as the two spiders which inhabit them are separate. The first focuses on the more emotional aspect of postmodernity which, I believe, may have stronger roots among hippie movements than anywhere else. It tends to hold the human community on a pedestal, which I find awfully strange seeing as humans are the ones who've done the bad things throughout history (though, admittedly, we've done good things too). The other trend in postmodernity is a separate one which emphasizes an almost nihilistic sort of thought. There is no absolute truth, there is no objective reality, everything is a matter of perspective.
I firstly theorize that

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