On Postmodernism

Last semester I took Dr. McLaughlin's Postmodernism literature class so this week's reading was a lot of review. Something I learned though was on how similar Modernism was to Postmodernism. Concentrated on postmodernity, I hadn't really grasped what modernity was. It is also interesting how abstract these concepts are and even now, if I were to be asked to define one or the other, it'd be at least a paragraph long to explain the terms. It is even more interesting that to define the term postmodern is essentially against everything postmoderism stands for. And on a similar thought, I feel that the label of something being postmodern is used way too often. I feel that it's become the categorization of things undefinable which is not only ironic but almost hypocritical. If we were to be true to the theories behind Postmodernity, the word "postmodern" would cease to exist.