It was over beers and burgers this week that Carmen made me realise that Bush is a Post-Modernist. Damn him, using my favourite misunderstood term so succesfully! And then she made me realize that I am Modernist. Double damn! I'm the big ugly building spoiling St Paul's, and he's got all the vacuous colorful marbles?!

So, I read this essay and I understand, and I decide that Modernism is the new post-modernism: the one, true answer is that there is none.

Bruno Latour: PRESS - THE EMPEROR' NEW CLOTHES:

-So, you must be a bit worried having helped Mr Bush win the election?

-What? Why? How could I have helped him? I am a philosopher. I am on the other side of the Atlantic; on the other side of the political spectrum.

-I'm not so sure. After all you are a constructivist, aren't you? At least you provided those folks some of the tools to escape all the limits of decency.

-Constructivism is a virtue, it's what allows one to fight fundamentalism, fanaticism. How could Bush be a constructivist?

-Well, this is what is written here, which by now has become a famous phrase: "The aide [to President Bush] said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' The aid [said]: 'That's not the way the world really works anymore, we're an empire now, and when we act we create our own reality.'"

This is why I am so enraged at postmodernism now that it lords over the White House as much as over campuses.