The boys drink and review Haze for Days Pale Ale from Crooked Crab Brewery, then discuss postmodernism.
First, they give a quick review of modernism. What it is, and why some people want to get past it.
Postmodernist thinking is characterized by skepticism and the rejection of grand narratives. It questions the idea of objective reality, morality, truth, human nature, reason, science, or social progress.
Postmodernism calls particular attention to the contingent or socially-conditioned nature of knowledge, and says that our knowledge claims and value systems are a product of historical or cultural discourse, or societal hierarchies. The individual isn’t free, but enslaved to an oppressive system that defines his language, his morals and his truth.
A lot of “modern” ideas (in the chronological sense) are derived from postmodernism.