PUSILLANIMOUS POSTMODERNISTS

Robert Miller posted this note today at the First Things website.  He describes how postmodernist artists (or should that be "so-called artists"? or maybe just "poseurs"?) roar about their courage to speak truth to power, yet quail when that power is something other than tolerant of their posturing.  For instance, a German opera house shut down a postmodernist production of Mozart's Idomeneo, rewritten to end with a display of Mohammed's severed head (among insults to other religions), fearing violent reaction by Islamic jihadists.  Miller sums up this shining example of postmodernist courage:  "Postmodern art can exist only in a tolerant, liberal society of the kind postmodernists affect to criticize but are actually parasitic upon."