Pomodernidad

Daniel Michilena

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Postmodernism

Postmodernism is the change of everything through the time. Imagine a world without values, everything would be a disaster. Current values are asimportant as before, it’s necessary for humans to live, types of values include ethical and moral values, doctrinal and ideological (religious, political) values, social values: Values reflect a person’ssense of right and wrong or what “ought” to be.

According to the world’s disasters values change. Ecology before wasn’t a moral, because if you wanted to put trash in the correct place and not tocontaminate the streets and the world, it was fine, and if didn’t do it, it was also well. For example, global warming, with the postmodernism, taking care of our planet is not a morality, it is a code ofethics. If you cut down a tree, it is punishable by law, something that didn’t exist before. Before, cutting down trees by millions was normal, but now it is forbidden and there are campaigns againstthat and now people plant many trees. Animals, before could be hunted. People did it without knowing that they could become extinct, but now there is a law not to hunt animals, in many countries itis totally forbidden for example in Australia and also in our country. Many products also take advantage of this to help in a certain way to the world, but it is also used as advertising to sell more,they use phrases such as "think green", for example the plastic bottles will be recycled now more easily.

There arise notions such as "globalization", "free world". Globalization is a economic,technological, social and cultural process to large-scale, which consists in increasing communication and interdependence between the different countries of the world by bundling your markets, societiesand cultures. Globalization was first used in the financial systems, and then with the internet it was drastically expanded. One of the most well-known thesis of Jean Baudrillard is that “in the...