Civil discourse is not only a verbal method of transmitting information but also a tool for solving personal problems or generating new meanings. The last significant personal discussion was on civilization’s topic, namely, what would come after postmodernism. It can be said that postmodernism is the current cultural and philosophical paradigm that determines the structure and content of various fundamental ideas and arts. This essay aims to describe the conclusion reached by the author after the last civil discourse.
Many philosophers and other humanitarian specialists believe that the modern global society in general and the Western world in particular lives in the paradigm of postmodernism. Postmodern ideas imply the individual’s liberation from all traditions, moral norms, and objective reality. Postmodernism suggests that culture is a multidimensional phenomenon, where there is no single cultural pattern or trend. Such a concept creates difficulties in answering the question of what might be the next cultural climate. During the civil discourse, it was found out that each subsequent cultural model denied the previous one while offering something new. For example, postmodernism’s chaos and irrationalism are a natural denial of modernism’s order and rationalism. Therefore, the next cultural paradigm will deny the diversity of multiple ideas and the subjective perspective, but from a new, previously unbalanced perspective.
This essay is a description of civil discourse on how the cultural climate will look like after the postmodernism era. It was found out that the change of cultural paradigms occurs on the principle of logical denial of the previous cultural model along with the introduction of new ideas. It means that after-postmodernism will deny the concepts of subversion, chaos, and subjectivity. It is important to note that this reasoning is more appealing to the Western philosophical school.