Untitled Document Identity and Ethics Identity Meaning is unstable in a postmodern world. Community and conversation cannot transfer real meaning or value, because I cannot be certain about the language we are using to communicate. Everybody is using a different language, with a different set of presuppositions. Conversation is seen as purely a set of conflicting and incommensurable discourses.
Society is seen as a set of power games.
However, reality is seen as social constructed. And if that social construction is only people trying to get one up on everybody else, if there is no basis for human relations in truth, then society fragments - you don't have to look very far to see it happening. We are deconstructing human relations, just as a literary theorist might try to deconstruct a text. The postmodernist goes on to suggest that just as we cannot communicate with others, so we are also unable to communicate with ourselves. Internally as well as externally, we are a mass of conflicting discourses, none of which we can judge as right or wrong.