Conclusion

Through these three examples, relativity is proven to be an aspect that often encourages an “anything goes” type thinking, where one truth could mean something else to one person and so on. This can go on until the truth no longer holds an objective stance and can be interpreted in any way one chooses. It can be further argued that one of the reasons why the era of postmodernism died was because of the “absence of ‘rigid’ opinions and moral values”, as The Dictatorship of Relativism says.  The article later questions whether relativity is a true aspect of postmodernism, or one that has been exploited to “short-circuit, not refine, our powers of discrimination.” (Kimball)

An even more extreme argument using the example of utopianism/humanitarianism for how relativity could and has caused a society to fail or crumble is, from the same article, “[Lenin’s] humanitarianism was a very abstract passion. It embraced humanity in general but he seems to have little love for, or even interest in, humanity in particular.” (Kimball)Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. were all utopians. Although the idea of utopianism is usually viewed in a positive light, it is relativity, which allows the rigidity of this idea to be skewed and in practice, can lead to horrific results, all because of the idea of relativity.

After the postmodern era came a sense of exploration. People realized that postmodernism was more than an era. It was a learning process. Postmodernism allowed people to interpret things in way that used to be unimaginable and from that innovation occurred, but in addition to that, so has destruction. What postmodernism introduced to the world was a new level of free thinking and acceptance, one that will bring our world into the next stage, which is essentially postmodernism, but with rigid values and opinions, but at the same time, an accepting mind which filters information.