The Aftermath

The Postmodern era came to a stop after a worldwide riot. Killing millions and destroying town and cities, this riot was the most violent and devastating that the world had ever seen. People acted out of their own interest, claiming that they could do whatever they wanted because their morals were subjective and no one could judge them or sentence them to any punishment. The world became what Pinker feared, "if morality is a mere trick of the brain, some may fear, our very grounds for being moral could be eroded" (The Moral Instinct). It was a slippery slope that people began to fall down. They stopped seeing even things like killing and theft as black and white, and instead those fell into a grey area that people found hard to come out of. Everything became relative to the wants and wishes of what people desired. Like it says in the Dictatorship of Relativism, "it does not recognize anything as absolute and leaves as the ultimate measure only the measure of each one and his desires" (Kimball, Dictatorship of Relativism).

After the riots, much like after World War I, people began to see the wrongs in their ways of thinking. They looked around at the destruction they had created by trying to make a subjective world, and, like with the technology in war, thought this "progress" surely could not truely be right. If something that was supposed to help society and move it away from the evils of war and devastion could cause so much chaos and harm, then it wasn't the right route to take either. People began to move back towards a objective way of thinking. Slowly, things started to look more black and white. People began to follow not only what they wanted, but also what would better society and the world.

Franck, Thomas. "Are Human Rights Universal?" Global. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 May 2013.

Kimball, Roger. "The New Criterion." Introduction: The Dictatorship of Relativism by Roger Kimball -. N.p., Jan. 2009. Web. 15 May 2013.

Pinker, Steven. "The Moral Instinct". January 13, 2008.