I really thought that September 11, 2001, marked the end of post-modernism. It has been said that the Fall of the Bastille in 1789 marked the end of the pre-modern age and the beginning of modernism. It has been said that the Fall of the Berlin Wall exactly two hundred years later in 1989 marked the end of modernism and the rise of post-modernism. Surely the Fall of the World Trade Center was another collapse that made post-modernism seem outdated. Those planes crashing into those buildings was a truth that we did not construct for ourselves. On that day we saw that both evil and good are real. Instead of being just a cacophony of mutually antagonistic cultures, as the postmodernists call for, America came together. We also saw that all religions are NOT equally valid, that they do NOT teach the same thing, and that they do NOT all lead to the same ends. You would think that relativism died in the rubble of the World Trade Center.

And yet, all of that, seven years later, is back. Postmodernism, after hiding out in a hole for awhile, came back with a vengeance. How could that have happened?

Or did postmodernism die after all? Are we perhaps seeing a new kind of postmodernism, or some new world view emerging?

On this seventh anniversary of the terrorist attacks, do you think America has, for better or worse, changed because of 9/11/2001?

I know I’ve been talking a lot about Sarah Palin on this blog and criticizing Barack Obama. So now I will in part make up for it by giving the Democrats some friendly advice. In doing so, I will explain something that they apparently do not understand:

Stop the condescending, snarky, personal attacks on Sarah Palin. See, ordinary Americans really like her. They can relate to her and they can identify with her. So when you make your little jokes about her that you think are real zingers, when you insult her and pick on her family, ordinary Americans–since, remember, they identify with her–take it as if you are doing that to them. This makes them defensive and resentful of the attackers. This makes them like Sarah Palin MORE.

So “going negative” against her just doesn’t work. Indeed, it is counter-productive, doing the opposite of what you intend. Now do you understand? (I will waive my consultant fees.)

Michelle Malkin describes the stages of leftist treatment of conservative women, drawing on her own experience, that of Condoleeza Rice, Laura Bush, Anne Coulter, and others, as being currently played out with Sarah Palin:

The first stage of Conservative Female Abuse by the Left is infantilization. Right-wing women can’t possibly believe what they believe about the sanctity of life, self-defense, free markets, or foreign policy. They must be submissive little dolls of the White Male Hierarchy. . . .

The second stage of CFA is sexualization. A conservative woman is not merely a sellout. She is an intellectual prostitute. Unable or unwilling to argue with them on the merits, detractors resort to mocking the physical appearance of their ideological opponents in skirts and denigrating them with vulgar epithets. . . .

The third stage of CFA is demonization. When the Left tires of hurling whore insults, it turns conservative women in the public eye into nefarious creatures. . . .

And the final stage of CFA is dehumanization. Conservative women aren’t real women according to the liberal feminist establishment’s definition.

Well, we made it. The earth apparently didn’t get sucked into a singularity (a.k.a. black hole) generated by the mega-particle accelerator in Geneva. We can breathe a sigh of relief. Your life today is a gift. Although it may be that we HAVE been sucked into the singularity and been spit out into another dimension. So if your day proves weird today, that might be the explanation.