The thing about Zen is … if you ignore it for long enough, it goes away and stops bothering you.
I’m impressed by the object example — which, moreover, you managed to write without the usual impenetrability of PoMo … making it twice as funny in its way.
But …
If you want it to go away … (and we all do want PoMo to go away) … stop talking about it!
*sigh*
I don’t know what it is recently … all the articles about it, it’s almost as bad as it was the first time around!
In order to understand anything, you need to look at what was going on twenty years previously … otherwise the efforts of the twenty-somethings recreating their poorly remembered childhood as they rebelliously recreate their parents’ youths ‘ironically’ (ironically, without realising that is what they are doing or that there’s nothing ironic about it either) will elude you.
PoMo really took off in the 1980s/1990s … so, what was going on in the 1960s/1970s?
This …
… which explains all you need to know about the vacuity of PoMo.
