Postmodernism Part 1

Ok, so I didn't want to jump straight back into the cynical dwellings on all of the shortcomings of daily life during my first post back, but now that I have the cheesy stuff out of the way, let's dive...

I have found a new vent (one actually might call it a stormgutter) for the frustration granted to me by my crumbling worldview, and I would like to call it the postmodern worldview. For those of you who aren't really sure what that is, as I wasn't, or for those of you who aren't into that sort of thing, allow me to explain. There come certain times in societal history when our current worldview (the modern worldview having been established about 450 years ago) can no longer bear the weight of so many addenda and footnotes that an entire new view must be constructed. The modern view replaced the medieval view of the universe as a series of concentic spheres around the earth, ascending in perfection. Travel, information, commerce and government were all being vastly liberated by advances in technology and theory. We live in a similar time, our picture of the way things work is changing, from social justice (in the past 50 years) to the internet to air travel to quantum physics, it is becoming increasingly difficult to support the modern worldview by simply adding on to it all the time. What is the solution?

The solution is the same as it was during the transition from prehistory to ancient, from ancient to medieval, and from medieval to moder: build a new one from scratch. The idea of a postmodern worldview frightens us and angers us sometimes, but it is necessary (especially for something like the church) to continue to be effective in a society that is vastly becoming, for the lack of a better term postmodern. Let's not blow this off as a small change. In the words of Brian Mclaren, "Everything must change."