
What lies beyond postmodernism?
What lies beyond postmodernism?
Reason, and only that. Welcome it. Our current civilization depends upon it.
A concise history of human thinking:

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- The Roman empire ended in approximately 476 CE, and the Roman Catholic Church Era began.
- The Catholic Church controlled and dictated human thinking for 1000 years. It was authoritarian, and I believe it limited human innovation and progress: the dark ages (500–1100CE) and/or the middle ages (400–1500CE). It was intellectually oppressive, but it nevertheless preserved humanity. And God bless it.
- The Church’s grip on human thinking nevertheless began to loosen with the Renaissance (1300 CE).
- Martin Luther fully undid the Catholic Church (and absolute truth) with the reformation (1517 CE). From this point on, the Catholic Church no longer controlled absolute truth. Thirty years of war would follow, and the state necessarily emerged permitting various positions on absolute truth (state religions).
- The world entered an era of absolute truth decline.
- In 1791, the first amendment of the American constitution was adopted. The first amendment prohibited the establishment of a state religion. Do you see the evolution?
- In short, from 1600–1960, the world’s thinkers undid absolute truth.
- In 1960, with the advent of postmodernism, absolute truth was declared fully deceased:
The premise of an objective natural reality, a reality whose existence and properties are logically independent of human beings—of their minds, societies, social practices, or investigative techniques is wrong. Postmodernists dismiss this idea as a kind of naive realism. Such reality as there is, according to postmodernists, is a conceptual construct, an artifact of scientific practice and language. This point also applies to the investigation of past events by historians and to the description of social institutions, structures, or practices by social scientists — postmodernism | Definition, Doctrines, & Facts
- But it wasn’t.
There was always another way:

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- Reason has that absolute truth cannot be claimed, even by the Church. However, it undeniably exists. See quadrant 3 above.
Other takeaways:
- For western civilization, peak innovation happened after Martin Luther inadvertently ended claims to absolute truth in the reformation.
- Apparently, after the societal adoption of Postmodernism (1960), science entered a period of decline: The Decline of American Science and Engineering. Further time will tell.
- Faith is in decline (2020: 47% from 70%)- Decline of Christianity in the Western world – Wikipedia. This harms the belief in absolute truth.