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Characteristics   Gene Veith identifies a series of
characteristics held by most expressions of postmodernism.
Social Constructivism. Meaning, morality and truth do not exist
objectively. This is at the heart of the postmodernist
worldview. Truth, with its attendant concepts of meaning and
morality, are “constructed” by society. Everything centers
around the story that the community has created to establish its
validity. The community in which a person places himself creates
their own versions of these things. Thus, what is truth for one
group is not necessarily truth for another. Rewriting history
for the good of the “story” is the basis of truth.  Cultural
Determinism. Individuals are shaped by their culture. Culture is
created by language, and we are trapped in a “prison of
language.” We are trapped because language does not communicate;
it obfuscates. This is one reason that some philosophers
consider postmodernism to be only the logical end of mode