It is at first sight a paradox but in reality it is the basis of the whole system, the ‘key’ and the ‘secret’: on the one hand, according to postmodernism, ‘there is no truth’ and no kind of ‘authority’ is binding, but at the same time there is a ‘body of thought’, a ‘discipline’ of sorts, namely postmodernist ‘theory’ as practiced initially by Foucault, Derrida and the like, now by a swarm of their acolytes, that ‘proves’ the proposition ‘there is no truth’. To be inducted into the inner-circle of postmodernism one has to show oneself an ‘adept’ at this theory, which is, naturally and deliberately, incomprehensible to the ordinary reader. It thus emerges that postmodernism rests on the most insidious form of pseudo-authority: that of the unchallengeable ‘expert’, the questioning of whom counts as perverse and bordering on criminal. What this shows is that at bottom postmodernism is not thought at all but a political act or decision, an act of power which sets itself against truth.
