standards are precisely what we make them, their meaning a value with which we invest them, and so on. Each human community tells its own story, invents its own version of the world for itself to live in. Rationality and morality are historically and socially context-bound, precisely because each community fashions and develops its own, just as it fashions and develops its own language. Indeed, according to the more radical representatives of so-called postmodern thought, not only are these various