Postmodern is used to define a period of time that most historians and authors would recognize. However, postmodernism describes a distinct worldview and/or philosophical system. Gene Veith describes it in this manner, “If the modern era is over, we are all postmodern, even though we reject the tenets of postmodernism.” Postmodernism categorically denies universal truth. Jean-Francois Lyotard, one of the most influential postmodern writers, describes it as an incredulity towards metanarratives. A metanarrative is any large story that large groups of people, even entire societies embrace as truth....