I do in general go along with the postmodern ethos: humanism, relativism, individualism etc. I say this, finding the old values from the old society desperately lacking. There was so much of these past value structures around which the society was organised that I found appalling. There are many of them still around though hopefully they are dying out.

The problem is I'm almost equally contemptuous of the modern enterprise. I particularly dislike its aggressive selfishness, its pre-occupation with competition and its general lack of compassion. Of course these deficiencies were pretty much always present but in the past were checked by the prevailing morality, a morality my generation found pretentious and wanting. At this point it may be as much as we can say but at least the postmodern with its overt self-absorption is more honest and as such might be a better foundation from which to build.

The postmodern way takes a bit of swallowing though as it cuts across several generations of standards and comes dangerously close to eliminating the good with the bad. But I think it's just about coherent enough to take us forward. To where? To a fusion perhaps, to the neo-modernist era? What's that then?