4th
You Know You’re A Post-Modernist If:
1. You drop the words “self” and “other around a lot in conversation, whether it be when questioning your existential place in the universe, drinking at the local pub or chatting with your dental hygenist.
2. When thinking about the concepts of “Self” and “Other” you tend towards capitalization.
3. You are your own Other.
4. You have all of Samuel Beckett’s plays displayed prominently on your bookshelf because you genuinely love them.
5. You have all of Samuel Beckett’s plays displayed prominently on your bookshelf because you know that they are profoundly post-modern, even though they give you a headache.
6. Your dog-eared copy of Moby Dick rubs spines with King Lear because Other is now the post-modern boogeyman — the Universe.
7. You know what that hippie homeless guy means when he tells you, “The Great Chain of Being is collapsing, man.”
8. You’ve read this list with a baffled look on your face, Googled the hell out of post-modernism and now need a Xanax.
9. You went to Brown or NYU’s Gallatin because who needs a major, anyway?
10. You’ve answered yes to 9.
11. You are certain only with the knowledge that there is no way to have any certainty about the post-modern condition and that this list is therefore moot.
