Instead, a new spiritual dimension has been revived, e.g., in the New Age movement, a revival of interest in astrology, ESP, etc. Postmodern art has accepted the past as just as valid as the present, that we haven't progressed to a better world. Thus, instead of rejecting the past, it is incorporated into art. There is no longer faith in a single over-all embracing metanarrative or consistency of style and idea, but rather postmodernism embraces the eclectic. There is greater trust in humor and irony and less in staid and serious theorizing.
Postmodernism validates the nonintentional.
It validates polytheism and a concern for the environment, ecology. It has turned from the theoretical to the pragmatic, from uniformity to diversity. Perhaps the first awareness of postmodernism was in the field of architecture. It is in architecture that the multifarious manifestations of postmodernism are most clearly visible and, therefore, most easily described. In architecture, postmodernism is a comparative concept, as it is in general, and therefore it must be contrasted with modernism.