Postmodernism is DEAD. This is Who Killed It.

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A video about postmodernism, how it died, and who killed it.

Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas.
Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows.

*Chapters*
00:00 Remember Postmodernism?
03:29 Suspect Number 1: Jordan Peterson
06:18 The Postmodern Panic
15:40 Suspect Number 2: Donald Trump & Elon Musk
24:35 Postmodernism Revisited
36:57 Suspect Number 3: The 2008 Financial Crisis
43:51 What Comes Next?

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*Blurb*
Remember postmodernism? Just under a decade ago, the term "postmodernism" seemed to be everywhere.

To slightly nerdier commentators on the political right (including Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Gad Saad, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and others), it was a way of warning of the dangers of the so-called "identity politics": feminism, anti-racism, disability activism. To just-as-nerdy folks on the political left, it was a way if describing the sheer bizarreness of the first Trump presidency: a new world of "fake news" and "alternative facts".

But, at some point in the intervening period, postmodernism kind of just vanished from the political conversation. So... is postmodernism dead? And, if so, who killed it?

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