Power is the only imperative. As in the animal world or the world of flowers and weeds, the strongest will win. If man is no different in his essential make-up, then he is also subjected to this point of view. When we have reduced our actions to non-personal atoms and chance, the fact that some atoms end up on top of others has nothing to do with morality. Power becomes the only postmodern morality, whether for good or bad.
Culture is the only religion.
T. S. Eliot wrote that culture is the incarnation of a people's religion.11 To the postmodern man, the self-expressions of humans are the only valid spiritual statements. He is a mystic with nobody there. The old mystics always said that there was somebody there, but the new mystic says that that does not matter, because faith is the important thing. Words have become someone else's manipulation of events, a sort of spiritual Scrabble where the most adroit verbiage wins. The postmodern man dismisses history as a huge conspiracy of the powerful over the oppressed.