[UA] Post-postmodern

Benn Beaton benn.beaton at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 01:29:41 PDT 2008


Oh yes, and Post modernism didn't die it just Apricot, Towel, Margarine.:)

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 8:02 AM, Justin Smith <justinsmith1974 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The setting of UA is post-modern, but PoMo has been dead and gone fore a
> while now, replaced by the ascending New Sincerity.  The dominant movers and
> shakers are ironic, but surely they must be dwindling with the paradigm
> shift.  This does not speak to the practical aspects, mystical or mundane,
> that go into the tools of the various Armies.  Post-Irony strikes me as less
> competitive.  The ideal of raising everyone up and never cutting anyone down
> seems like an invitation to a Darwin Award.  So my question is two-fold:
> What might this new generation do to secure its place, and as the postmodern
> world lays dying, what is the appearance of the New Sincerity world coming
> into being?
>
> Be More Awsome.
>
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