I am NOT a Post-Modernist

I've blogged about this before but it still bears repeating: I am not a post-modern writer.

I don't even think we can make the case that we're living in a post-modern culture any more. There may be relics of that obsolete and naive religion (which grew out of a culture created by spoiled brats who loved marijuana more than people) still floating around in the social conciousness. But I'm reading too many essays lately which finally come right out and explain how sick and tired people are of the reign of terror these burnt-out hippies are still waging as they cling more viciously to their dead and rotting philosophies.

"No, don't hold back," you say. "Tell me how you really feel!" I always get myself in trouble when I do that. I'd rather let others, who are eminently more qualified than I to say the things I wish I could say with such clarity and authority.

Read this article by Ron Rosenbaum (HT Books, Inq.). He says it better than I can.