Jaime Roberts
1 min readJun 7, 2021

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Although Ken Wilber hasn’t aged well, objective vs social idealism is in his writings on Postmodernism. Specifically he devotes a chapter to Postmodernism in his book “A Brief History of Everything”. Postmodernism rejects the Universalism of Modernity and the lack of a subjective point of view, but it too is a “World View” and is itself a meta-narrative. This World View is socially constructed. As Wilbur says, it is what “We” believe to be “good”.

Postmodernism is highly moral, as it criticizes Modernity (specifically science) as being amoral, or without ethics. But Postmodernity is not a return back to Christian ethics, although communialism is found in both. Rather the narrative is; God is dead. We can create our own realities through social construction. We, collectively, are gods. Gods do not follow laws, they make them. Instead Gods must create limitations for themselves, and this becomes the value system they follow. Thus Postmodernists are constantly setting limits on what is socially acceptable.

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Jaime Roberts
Jaime Roberts

Written by Jaime Roberts

Architect writing about environmental design in an age of climate change.

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