This is really quite a wonderful piece. I remember when I was a PhD candidate I followed only the Derridian post-modernists. Derrida was a god! I mouthed every post-modern turn of phrase and rejected brilliant professors who were not gulled into this nonsense. Then I got my degree and started teaching at a small college and I saw that the only thing post about post-modernism was it's helpfulness to students who needed to know what the modern was: True statements refer to the real world, and human beings are capable of true statements. In fact we have a moral duty to do our best to form true statements. Post modernism was a a form of lazy thinking more than anything else.