Having identified as risible attempts to forcibly assert Truth by means of hard-lined aesthetic dogma, the Postmodernist reacted by withdrawing from the world, and then bursting into uncontrollable laughter over the hopeless mess of it.
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Enlightenment: 'Humanising' the Arts
As the eighteenth-century rolled on, god’s divine light grew dimmer and the light of man’s reason, brighter. It was the beginning of a self-referential, human-derived and human-validated moral order. It was the beginning of the Enlightenment.