we need to muster courage to face the emptiness of a world without absolutes. Affirmative postmodernists are more difficult to describe because they are active in so many diverse causes. Indeed, eclecticism (borrowing from a variety of worldviews) and an ability to maintain even contradictory positions simultaneously are common among affirmative postmodernists. They argue that self-contradiction isn’t a problem once we remove the modernist burden of rational consistency.