objective, obtainable truth. Postmodernism professes that truth (in aesthetics, ethics, religion, and everything else) is in the eye of the beholder(s)—a matter of personal or social belief. In its mildest forms, postmodernism is merely skepticism—claiming that there might be a true reality out there, but we human beings are hopelessly unable to gain access to it. In its stronger forms, postmodernism claims that there is no true reality out there at all; there is only what we human beings construct