Post-Modern Humility

The post-modern child has learned that all truth is opinion and that everyone has some mysterious “right” to that opinion.  Having seen that culture determines thought and that cultures vary, we conclude that thought, too, varies, and therefore that no one person’s thought has any more right to the claim of truth than another.  So we become tolerant of difference, open-minded in the odd sense that we would never dream of thinking our beliefs are true.  Yet  the ironic implication is that the post-modern child need never be concerned about whether he could be wrong, and his open-mindedness need never actually be open to the need to be corrected or instructed.  Thus the humility of post-modern thought brings us to the unmitigated egoism of those no longer capable of self-doubt.