Deconstructing Context

One word that continually pops up in Postmodern discourse is "context." Now Postmodernists are quick to point out that context is temporal, finite, and not all that meaningful. That's almost a hint of nihilism in Postmodern discourse. Of course, Postmodernists wink at this fact as the Postmodern condition.

What Postmodernists do not often point out is that context if based on a text. If one is speaking of a historical context, that is based on a text that the Postmodernist has found to be relevant to contemporary history, and that text is also based on a context that another Postmodernist or modernist found convincingly relevant. This can literally go on almost infinitely...

Now it is true that the problems of Postmodern culture is supposed to be addressed by the Postmodernist and a temporal solution to these problems are to be found by the Postmodernist. However, it is also true that the Postmodernist also causes these problems by stating that these are the relevant problems of the day, and these are the solutions. But are the problems symptoms of a culture in decay or are they real problems we need to work out? Do we need to fix the Postmodern culture or is Postmodernism the answer to our problems?

Human beings in general desire security, food, and a stable job. They also desire a vision of the future that they can all participate in in a positive manner that benefits the human race. What is the Postmodern Vision? It's just one context changing to another context and a bunch of academics showing how one context is related to another context without any World Vision of Postmodern society. Or the World Vision is of a people being overflooded with information about cultures, news, data bytes, etc. without any way of unifying this information. Postmodernism fights against fragmentation at the expense of human happiness and coherency. Postmodernism is filled with words like delocalization, deconstructionism, and decoherence.