Instead, postmodernists focus on surfaces, fragments, margins. Reality is too shifting, complex, and indeterminate to decipher or judge. The postmodern style is notorious for its dense language and games of contradiction. Shared and direct experience, which once helped us understand the meaning and texture of life, are two major casualties of this cyborg imperative. Things grow stark and menacing in every sphere, and still Haraway and the postmodern crowd insist that conclusions be avoided.
Postmodernism celebrates evanescent flows, a state of no boundaries, the transgressive.
If this sounds familiar, it's because these values are shared by the most ardent architects of both consumerism and capitalist globalization. As the dimensions of personal sovereignty and community steadily erode, along with meaning and value, a consumer society in cyberspace becomes the uncontested next stage of human existence. They are also of no concern, evidently, to postmodernists, who continue to cling to the subtle, the tentative, the narrowly focused. As we reject any possibility of understanding shared or even personal experience, no challenge to that experience seems plausible. The decay of meaning, passion, and inner vibrancy has been going on for a while.