{"id":5325,"date":"2019-12-14T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T22:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2026-05-04T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T16:23:36","slug":"postmodernism-on-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/postmodernism-on-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Postmodernism on Culture: Is Your Culture Destroying You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is postmodernism&#8217;s view on culture? How does postmodernism on culture affect the way we view history?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postmodernism on culture says that humans exist to serve culture, and not the other way around. In a sense, according to the postmodernist view, cultures are plagues of society, not entities that serve us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We&#8217;ll cover postmodernism on culture and look at other ways scholars view our relationship with culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-postmodernism-on-culture-cultures-take-advantage-of-humans\">Postmodernism on Culture: <strong>Cultures Take Advantage of Humans<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>We think that cultures exist to serve us, but we\u2019re actually serving them.<\/strong> Scholars in different fields have different analogies to describe this process. Therefore, this concept has three names: postmodernism, mimetics, and game theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-postmodernism-on-culture-culture-as-a-plague-of-society\">Postmodernism on Culture: Culture as a Plague of Society<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholars in the humanities call the process of humans serving cultures \u201cpostmodernism.\u201d For example, they talk about nationalism as a plague that infiltrated the world in the 19th and 20th centuries. It started in a few countries, then spread to its neighbors, leaving war and genocide in its wake. <strong>Nationalism was purportedly good for humans, but it actually weakened and killed its hosts.<\/strong> It was and is only good for itself. This is the view of postmodernism on culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-mimetics-on-culture-culture-as-a-parasite-of-humanity\">Mimetics on Culture: Culture as a Parasite of Humanity<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Similar to postmodernism on culture is mimetics on culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many scholars compare cultures to parasites, an approach called mimetics. Just as parasites live in human hosts, feed off of them, and \u201ccare\u201d only about multiplying and spreading from host to host (often at the expense of the host\u2019s health), humans are just the hosts and vehicles of cultures. In other words, <strong>cultures don\u2019t exist for the benefit of humans; rather, they infect and feed off humans.<\/strong>&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this analogy sounds threatening, it should. Cultures live inside our minds and spread from person to person. They often weaken or even kill the host when the host is willing to die to propagate the culture, such as those who\u2019ve died in the name of Naziism, democracy, Christianity, human rights, Islam, and nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-game-theory-on-culture-culture-as-a-game-that-no-one-wins\">Game Theory on Culture: Culture as a Game That No One Wins<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Also similar to postmodernism on culture is game theory on culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholars in the social sciences call this process <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/hub\/science\/psychology\/game-theory-explained\/\">game theory<\/a>. For example, they compare arms races to a game that no one wins. Arms races benefit no country or individual. Like a parasite, an arms race hurts all the players involved, and yet the players still spread the system. If Pakistan buys more weaponry, so does India. When India develops a nuclear bomb, Pakistan develops one in response. When Pakistan increases the size of its navy, so does India. At the end of this process, the balance of power between the two countries is exactly the same as it was before the arms race started, but both countries have bankrupted themselves, spending money that could have been used for health care or education. <strong>Systems like arms races only benefit themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-history-doesn-t-benefit-humans\"><strong>History Doesn\u2019t Benefit Humans<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing postmodernism on culture has in common with the mimetic view on culture and the game theory view on culture is that culture, and history itself, doesn&#8217;t benefit humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can say with confidence that history doesn\u2019t care about us. We like to think that as history progresses, life for humans gets better, but there\u2019s no reason to think that what\u2019s good for humans is also what\u2019s good for history or vice versa. Our well-being doesn\u2019t necessarily increase as history moves forward. This is one takeaway from the view of postmodernism on culture.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Similarly, there\u2019s no reason to think that just because Christianity and Islam defeated other religions, they are therefore the best religions for humanity. <strong>We have no objective way to judge what\u2019s best or even what\u2019s good<\/strong> because different cultures define \u201cgood\u201d differently.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Still, we believe that the way things are is the way they should be, for two reasons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The victors always think their way is the best way<\/strong>, and the victors are the ones who write the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/reading-history-books\/\">history books<\/a>, rule empires, and define what\u2019s \u201cgood\u201d for humanity. Christians say the spread of their religion was the best outcome for mankind, but there\u2019s no evidence that Christianity benefits us more than Manichaeism would have.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>We\u2019re biased toward the present<\/strong>\u2014we think that the victory of a particular ideology or system is an indication of its goodness rather than an indication of a chance occurrence. For instance, we assume that Islam and Christianity must be so widespread today because they benefit humanity, but their prevalence isn\u2019t proof of their goodness.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the progress of history is inherently unpredictable, we can\u2019t explain why today\u2019s world is the way it is. But we should remember that, just as history is unpredictable, history isn\u2019t inevitable, and our world isn\u2019t the product of benevolent hands of time. It\u2019s important to question our values, cultures, and systems, and ask why we adhere to them in the first place. 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