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Watch ABOLISH EVERYTHING and my feature-length doc BOOMERS on Nebula here: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas Get 40% off an annual subscription to Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas A video about postmodernism, how it died, and who killed it. Written, directed, and presented by Tom Nicholas. Filmed and edited by Georgia Burrows. *Chapters* 00:00 Remember Postmodernism? 03:29 Suspect Number 1: Jordan Peterson 06:18 The Postmodern Panic 15:40 Suspect Number 2: Donald Trump & Elon Musk 24:35 Postmodernism Revisited 36:57 Suspect Number 3: The 2008 Financial Crisis 43:51 What Comes Next? Watch this video ad and sponsor-free over on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-who-killed-postmodernism *Blurb* Remember postmodernism? Just under a decade ago, the term "postmodernism" seemed to be everywhere. To slightly nerdier commentators on the political right (including Jordan Peterson, James Lindsay, Gad Saad, Dave Rubin, Ben Shapiro, and others), it was a way of warning of the dangers of the so-called "identity politics": feminism, anti-racism, disability activism. To just-as-nerdy folks on the political left, it was a way if describing the sheer bizarreness of the first Trump presidency: a new world of "fake news" and "alternative facts". But, at some point in the intervening period, postmodernism kind of just vanished from the political conversation. So... is postmodernism dead? And, if so, who killed it? Support my work on Patreon at https://patreon.com/tomnicholas Twitch: http://twitch.tv/tom_nicholas Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound