The Center Focus for Postmodernism

When you look atthe word “postmodernism,” if you were to decipher it in english terms it would mean anhything that is going to be in the future…since post mean after and modern means now. “…however, postmodernism seems to offer some alternatives to joining the global culture of consumption, where commodities and forms of knowledge are offered by forces far beyond any individual's control. These alternatives focus on thinking of any and all action (or social struggle) as necessarily local, limited, and partial--but nonetheless effective. By discarding "grand narratives" (like the liberation of the entire working class) and focusing on specific local goals (such as improved day care centers for working mothers in your own community), postmodernist politics offers a way to theorize local situations as fluid and unpredictable, though influenced by global trends. Hence the motto for postmodern politics might well be "think globally, act locally"--and don't worry about any grand scheme or master plan.” People tend to get start getting sidetracked by what they believe to be a metanarrative, as according to the book Postmodernism, “big stories, stories of mythic proportions—that claim to be able to account for, explain, and subordinate all lesser, little, local narratives.” These “metanarratives” tend to have someone look at the bigger picture rather than having them be able to focus on something of a smaller porportion. It should be brought about by the ideas that we all share and it brings forth a new beginning to everything that occurs. Postmodernism claims that postmodernism is “the failure of the Enlightenment.” The Enlightenment was was “a period during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries when European philosophers stressed the use of reason as the best method for learning the truth.” What the philosophers did not know was that even if they were to find the truth in reasoning, it was always going to be based off of an opinion rather than something that has factual evidence. So therefore, I believe that the central perspective of what postmodernism is, is the funadamentals to life and the procedures that take place while focusing on the things that are here and now and on a smaller scale, rather than something that may actually possess some impossibilties.