Postmodernists

>Learn more about history
>Become a postmodernist

Is this the natural progression of the historian? Anyone else like this?

I'm a Monarchist, so you know, of course I am.

You just found a theory that conformed to your previous biases.

Maybe, but when you see all of the oppression of women and people of color on the basis of unscientific societal bullshit throughout history, it does shift your views.

>Anyone else like this?
I'm an archaeologist, but yes. When I first started getting into the field, I thought theory was bullshit, but I quickly realized that artifacts by themselves don't actually say anything, so theory is necessary for narratives. Then I thought processualism (which is basically modernist) made the most sense, both because it's still basically what most archaeologists follow (so it's always presented well), and I liked how science-y it sounded. After a while, I quickly started seeing some pretty big holes in applying that kind of materialist mindset to archaeology (humans are complicated as fuck and something like natural laws really can't be assigned to them, at least not anything that isn't very broad and reductionist - the fact that none have been discovered in about 60 years of processualism is proof enough of that); from there, I also came to realize that it's completely unrealistic to assert that a narrative based on interpretations of materials made by completely different cultures can ever be objective.

Because of that, the idea that interpretations should focus on smaller, more specific interpretations that are fully aware of their own biases seemed to make the most sense. When I talk about theory with archaeologists, this usually gets agreement; in some ways, it's a much more common sense approach than most people are taught, but for whatever reason, most archaeologists still completely reject postmodernism as a useful theoretical tool (at least in name). In very basic terms, I think it works well as a way to acknowledge the limitations of what archaeology is (and what it can do), and to begin a dialogue about how to effectively use/practice it within a useful framework.

I felt this. Learning about the Churches repeated denial of women in their movements made me a postmodern catholic feminist.

>inb4 cuck/soyboy/faggot

>denial of women
>oppression of women and people of color on the basis of unscientific societal bullshit
>begin a dialogue
Yep you're definitely a post-modernist.
I'll never know why you people are so reliant on cliches like these.

The exact opposite happened to me.

Cathar fags fuck off

They're reliant on shallow emotions and can't come up with anything that isn't an expression of that.