The Negative Effects Of Post Modernism

In the past, the role of critique was not seen as a big impacts to most society. During the modernism time, most things were well constructed. People were not eager to question the norm. During that time, they think that the best solution of life is to obey the rules given by the authorities. Besides, the ideology during modernism era also had a fixed views about the nature of things. For instance, facts were made through logic and observation, science was used as primary concept to find the truth, the architecture of buildings were made without any motif and paintings were based on pop art. However, as the society shifting to postmodern era, a lot of naturalized ideas have been changed and the role of critique starts to take place. Until today,

In the past, modernism which occurred during the early part of the 20th century was mostly associated with the depiction of authenticity. For instance, the value of verdicts like high and low culture respectively equal to good and bad. The thing that is general were widely accepted as the norm back in the day. As postmodern emerges which started from 1960s, the way of thinking and behave also begins to change. According to Jameson, he argues that the meaning of postmodernism cultural production refers to the spectacle and appearance (O 'Shaughnessy & Stadler, 2012). Besides, postmodernism texts exemplify cynicism towards the notions of the modern era such as the thoughts of progress, individuality, impartiality and purpose

Todays, the society has the ability to see the genuineness of reality through knowledge. They know that the input of the media are mostly fabricated. Furthermore, people already identify that the authorities, education, family and the media are controlling them. The word ‘freedom’ denotation is seem to never exist even though one’s living in a democratic country. Despite critique has become quite aggressive in term of arbitrating the world views and the construction of media, the society still remains powerless. As a result, the society uses satirical way to criticize the whole system. The usage of irony element on texts such as posters, videos, writings or memes has been one of the obvious way in criticizing the world and the media. Some original poster such as from political campaigns have been redesigned to deliver different meanings. Even a little caption embedded on the poster can change the whole meaning of the picture. Moreover, meme has become an internet sensation in today’s world to poke fun at certain issues. In social media, the society can view or create their own meme and share it with other people. Even though meme was initially to bring humour to the audience and nothing to take as a serious matter but sometimes the joke inserted in it does make sense and relate to the real life