We may have already shared thoughts about postmodernism, so I apologize in advance if I am repeating myself to you.

I appreciate very much your adding the “distortion” of reality to the mix. That hadn’t occurred to me.

I do think postmodernists have gotten a couple things right. I think, led by Derrida, they have established that ‘objectivity’, as a state of mind a human being can achieve in which no extraneous subjective influences are operative, is an impossibility. I think that, led by Foucault, they have correctly emphasized the ubiquity of relations of power in human interactions — something Liberalism underestimated from the start, with Locke’s Utopian Sate of Nature, Rousseau’s idyllic view of ‘human nature’, and the ‘faith’ Kant and Hegel had in rationality as a human trait (along with Marx, for that matter, though he was no Liberal).

Still, my studies have taught me that justice can only be achieved through universally valid observation within material existence — a possibility postmodernists reject on extra-rational grounds, with their assertion that ‘universals’ simply cannot exist (which makes that position ideological).