RE: Delerium + Merlot = Quill's Delerious Delights
Great comment.
The Old Lady in your church is the dictionary definition of an ideologue. However, she does not possess the power to compel. Governments do, and so when laws are created that give governments the authority to begin compelling ideological beliefs and behaviors, the stakes change. Dramatically.
While we have erected a wall separating Church (God-based) and State, we have not erected a wall separating Secular Religion and State.
Postmodernism is a Secular Religion. Belief in it requires the same faith that is required of traditional religions ... which is hugely ironic as so many postmodernists are vocal atheists who take every opportunity to ridicule religionists ... for believing in something that cannot be proven. This is classic "Projection" and is being played out on a cultural-scale.
I'm not arguing that people shouldn't be allowed to have opinions ... even bat-shit crazy ones. There are a raft of people here on Steemit that believe the Earth is flat. That's batshit crazy. To be honest, I'm simply too old to care anymore. But the moment you try to force me, or others, to believe and behave as if such nonsense were True, then you're going to hear Quill squeal like a pig.
And BTW, in a month's time, I'm going to be wishing you and everyone else, Merry Christmas ... not Joyous Post-Winter Solstice Seasonal Greetings. Everybody knows why there's a vacation and why everybody's buying presents. Wishing someone Merry Christmas is not an attempt to convert them or save their souls. It's a cultural tradition, derived from a religious one ... which itself is derived from an earlier one still. Santa Claus and flying reindeer do not figure prominently in the Bible. If you can't handle it, tough shit. The Majority rules and you, as the Minority, will just have to go cry in a corner.
Quill
I think you give postmodernism too much credit. It has about run its course. I think the next generation is going to change course. Probably not to Christianity. But its become an American tradition to rebel against your parents (for some reason). For the pokes older people take against millennials, I see the group as highly creative and entrepreneurial. That's a good thing. Yeah, there is a huge number of them who have bought into the socialist-Marxist paradigm, but what happened to Boomers when they got jobs? Their Woodstock pipe dreams went up in smoke and they traded their roach clips and leg warmers for SUVs and mutual funds. I think we'll see a certain number of couch-surfing millennials do the same. And the next generation, who knows? Maybe they'll become Randian fanatics and usher in a new wave of capitalist entrepreneurism.
Postmodernism is dying. Just like nihilism, absurdism, existentialism, and every other ism, because ... as a philosophy, it has nothing to latch onto. That's why you get so-called artists that make bird calls (and bad ones at that) into microphones for three minutes and take themselves seriously while doing it.
As for ideologues, I've learned that if you just do your thing and act like their talk doesn't mean anything (which it doesn't), they quit trying to talk to you. And their whitewash usually disappears like Cheech and Chong's extracurricular activities.