Essay by Martha Quillen
Modern Culture – April 1999 – Colorado Central Magazine
THERE IS NO SUCH THING as objective reality. The “real world” as we know it is merely a social construction. What we believe to be true is determined by our culture, our religion, our myths, our class, our language, our traditions — and the creative and deductive capacity of our brains.
Or at least that’s what various postmodernists would have us believe.