If I discard the aim of making it new, then I must do something other than Modernism. But that means something new. Instead of the postmodern condition, one ought to speak of a postmodern paradox. He saw disaster lurking wherever logicians build a system, even so innocuous a game as arithmetic. And it will never cease to recur, as long as one has the power to think and to construct.
Postmodernism too can no more exist than it can be avoided.
No wonder that proponents of a new cultural era sound so otherworldly. It sounds much like the demand of politicians today. If not all postmodernists echo it, at least they can hope to describe it. If one cannot define Postmodernism, one can at least ask why it has to be invoked. One has to talk not about Postmodernism at all, but rather about how Modernism is perceived at the millenium .