Blog Topic for the Week of August 29

One of the major differences between Modernism and Postmodernism is that modernism is the belief that there is only one right way to do something, and postmodernism is the belief that there is no one set way of doing things. In the video "The Obsolete Man" the character of the judge helps me to understand these differences clearly. The judge a modernist believed that any person that thought different form the state was wrong and possibly crazy. He states during the librarian’s trial that there is no religion since the state has proven that there was not. The judge feels that everyone has one purpose and one purpose only and since there were no more libraries, there was no need or point to have librarians. Also the fact that the state got rid of all books including the Bible further lets me know that they want to eliminate all free thought, which just leaves the beliefs of the state which are modernism beliefs. The judge and the video as a whole showed me how closed minded modernism was.