The Three Buzz Words

Postmodernism is just Premodernism.
Absent of God, it is just the self which dictates truth.
The self becomes a god,
And the predilections of teenage angst
Become adult philosophies.

The Modernist, they say,
Is concerned with rational ways of being.
The Postmodernist is concerned with one's own being.
The Premodernist is concerned with being.

The postmodernist is just a religious zealot of the self.
The modernist is a man who believes heroes ought to be
The average man, and that average men make good literary subjects.
The Premodernist, he is concerned with heroes,
With magic, with systems of divine truth.

Which of these kinds of men are right?
Solomon said all three have merit,
Yet I find myself holding to two of the traditions;---
For there are only two.
There is the Premodern, who believes what is outside of him
Is defined by God. The Postmodernist just goes one step further
And believes themselves to be God.
The Modernist, he believes truth can be found 
In reason, and the study of the outside world.

At some point, an ontological question gets asked, "Is there any outside world to begin with?"
The Modernist doesn't speculate on such issus.
The Premodernist doesn't either.
The Postmodernist, however. wonders so very much whether solipsism were true.

The Premodernist man, he tells the tales of heroes.
The Modernist man, he tells the tales of average men.
The Postmodernist man, he doesn't believe in tales of any kind.

The prophets speak in similitudes
The scientists speak in data
The lunatics speak in self-aggrandizement.

A religious man is concerned with the well being of others.
A secular man is concerned with the well being of the state.
A lunatic man is concerned with the well being of himself.

A good man is concerned with treating others the way one would want to be treated.
A civil man is concerned with treating others the way society has constructed with their laws.
A lunatic man is concerned with how others treat himself.

A saint is concerned with soothing heartache.
A businessman is concerned with soothing poverty.
A demon is concerned with soothing himself.

A righteous man is concerned with being good.
A worldly man is concerned with being rich.
A stupid man is concerned with being himself.

A meek man is concerned with charity.
A strong man is concerned with his strength.
A weak man is concerned with how he appears to others.

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