Looking at it the other way, though, postmodernism is quite accommodating in a way that modernism wasn't. A man like C.S. Lewis wouldn't have to write book after book explaining and defending his choice to be a Christian these days. It would simply be accepted. Major figures like Oprah Winfrey and Dr Laura and David Robinson regularly and undefensively refer to their strong religious beliefs, and that's seen as a good thing. Therefore, we face an entirely different set of problems.
Postmodernism is in many ways a blessing.
In this, he may be closer to Beethoven's heart than the earnest longhairs so parodied in the popular entertainment of this century. Or, they could do neither and claim in the middlebrow manner to be above or below the whole question. But now, rather than rejecting or ignoring the past, or at any rate seeing the past and the present as being in opposition, we embrace the past, distant and recent, collecting it in a giant hodge-podge and using it as we wish. Underlying this embrace, or perhaps flowing out from it, is the recognition that human beings have always been engaged in ideas, and that although our efforts must go pitifully out of date they do contain glimmers of truth, and are our only way to see them. All Rights Reserved.