Rosabelle Meagan August 25, 2006

Hi, my name is Rosabelle Meagan and I am a postmodernist! If postmodernity is like alcoholism, I want to be inebriated for the rest of my life. Postmodernity, one word, revolution! I felt like applauding after the first night in class after Rollins own MC (Mike Checker), DJ Dr. Notorious Rog, whom instead of spinning records with hip hop beats, rapped about the intriguing theories of postmodernism. Ironically, I felt like I was in a movie, amidst an actual counter-society. Postmodernism equals a counter-society where individuals can broaden and define their own realities. It counterattacks the hegemonic hypnosis of pop culture society. Unlike the patriarchal ran society, Roger and the theorists that preceded him such as Saussure and Derrida, do not give us a mask and says, “Here put this one, you are a man, woman, girl, boy, black, white, blue or green.” Postmodernism gives all human beings the key to unlock the interlocking systems of oppression created by patriarchal society, such as racism and sexism, freeing both men and women. Postmodernist theorists guides and directs individuals to their own unique identities, rather than fit a mass societal role already in place for them. The only thing I regret about this class is that it was not available to me sooner, from the beginning; before the first grade, where all the programming of mass and sub-masses of society took place.