when postmodernism denounces all absolute values and inherent meanings in the name of freedom, it “secretly smuggles . . . an absolute into the argument.”26 Why, for example, is freedom so important? Why is that the absolute, unquestioned “good”—and who gets to define it as such? Are you not assuming a value-laden standard that you are using to critique all other approaches to life? And are you not, then, actually giving a universal answer to the Meaning question, namely, that the meaning of life is to have the freedom to determine your own meaning? Are you not, then, doing the very thing you
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