It’s easy, but not helpful, to use “postmodern” as a shorthand for “bad ideas” of some kind. Something like Sturgeon’s law (“90% of everything is crap”) applies to postmodernism as to everything else, and I’d even agree that it’s a kind of thinking that is more likely than average to come unmoored from reality, but that doesn’t mean that it’s barren of all insight. Especially today, at least 20 years after its heydey, and considering that even in its heyday it was a very rare academic department indeed where drinking the kool-aid was either mandatory or an excuse for stupidity (as opposed to wrongness, which it certainly did excuse; but again, Sturgeon), beating up on postmodernism seems like worrying about crack babies; slightly anachronistic and unhelpful.
It’s easy, but not helpful, to use “postmodern” as a shorthand for “bad ideas” of some kind. Something like Sturgeon’s law (“90% of everything is crap”) applies to postmodernism as to everything else, and I’d even agree that it’s a kind of thinking that is more likely than average to come unmoored from reality, but that doesn’t mean that it’s barren of all insight. Especially today, at least 20 years after its heydey, and considering that even in its heyday it was a very rare academic department indeed where drinking the kool-aid was either mandatory or an excuse for stupidity (as opposed to wrongness, which it certainly did excuse; but again, Sturgeon), beating up on postmodernism seems like worrying about crack babies; slightly anachronistic and unhelpful.