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What do Postmodernists mean by “Skepticism towards Metanarratives” mean in simple terms?
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One aspect of modern, post-Enlightenment thinking has been the view that history has a direction. “We” through history are heading towards a liberal democracy or a communist utopia, or some other endpoint. The postmodern critique of this modern notion is that this overarching story of a direction to history is a fabrication. History and humans may have no overarching direction as told in the older big stories or metanarratives we used to tell ourselves.