The only thing left is politics. This encourages some tenure-seeking scholars, and they theorize that one can end all tragedy, while being a great mind, by eradicating the Truth, and discouraging the pusuit of it. A Ph.D. in Education is awarded. Economists discover that with this new method, scholars can be manufactured far faster than they could by thinking alone. Deconstructing all former records of the pursuit of the Truth turns out to be a formidable task, but postmodernists unselfishly volunteer their talents, leaving those with pre-postmodern linear minds free to develop the future laser printers and high resolution TV's by which the postmodern nihilism shall be communicated to their students and the American people, some of whom still tell their kids to tell the Truth.
Chaos theory is applied to science, with similar results.
Steven Hawking sees the mind of God in an equation, and the coffee-table physics book is invented. We show up at the University, to study the Truth. We receive safe sex kits, and recycling bins. We enroll in a creative writing seminar, to learn how to write creatively. We are kicked out for writing poems which rhyme.