Welcome Postmodernists

Welcome postmodernists to my blog. Welcome to our blog of postmodern conversations.

It is my blog when I'm sending. It is your blog when you read it.

Of course, for those of you who have some understanding of postmodern thinking already know that my opening paragraph has a modernist meaning. In our modern days (or ways) of thinking we would view this blog as having two opposites: senders and receivers. Not so simple with postmodern "logic".

There is no true blue blogger (or author) without simultaneously having implied a receiver (or reader). Modern thinking separates "either/or" (or binary thinking) into categories of opposites. I'll elaborate on this at greater length latter. For now, know that modern thinking (also called Western reason or science) divides reality into two parts or more and they each stand independent of one another. We know oil and water don't mix. Neither do good or evil. Neither do bad or good. Neither do right or wrong. Modern thinking is about categories of correctness. Ethics, truth, theology, religion, philosophy each have a modernist way of interpreting reality in dualistic/binary terms with a versus often between them.

Back to the original point. As I sit here and write I am not an objective interpreter or author of my words. I bring my history from other writers whom I have read. Neither are you simply a reader. You are also an author with your own history of how you perceive these words. Author and reader are also reader and author. We are both-and not either/or. So as you read you are doing several possible things at once.

You could be trying to comprehend and say, "This fellow doesn't make any sense". You could be comprehending and say, "This fellow could have done a better job of explaining himself "You could be saying, "So where is this guy going with all this? What's his point?" You could say, "What has this got to do with postmodern thinking?"

Or another possibility: "Who cares?" At which point you may have moved on to some other website, link, blog, twitter, facebook, etc.

Since you made it this far I will redo the opening from a postmodern perspective.

A blog about postmodern thinking is much too serious to be taken seriously.

So I purpose we (interpreters of reality) enjoy blogging our hearts out.

The word games have begun. Tag we're it.