The postmodern world is marked by several distinct factors. No longer is reason and structure elevated. Enlightenment philosophy has been replaced by the postmodernists with an embrace of everything and nothing at the same time. Built on the foundation of literary criticism which focused on the ambiguities of language, Postmodernism has grown to become an assault on reason, science, structure, and any set of ethical principle or bastion of tradition. Absolutes are replaced by relativity.
Values are no longer of any value.
Truth is fiction and the new fiction, like the matriarchal society or Afrocentrism who's history was recently written, is truth. Beyond the coherent philosophy of incoherence, Postmodernism is a wonderful excuse for any class of neglected people to reorder the entire society based on a new history, teaching, or social system. This is a perfect example of how Postmodernism affects language. Literary criticism was the spawning ground for the emergence of Postmodernism as we know it today. The postmodernist sees words as abstractions.