[it_does_follow]

One small thing regarding all this that I think you should toss around as a hypothesis:

Generally, people with a background studying modernism and post-modernism (especially the later) will agree that it is the events of the world that create these, not the other way around.

There is this common, mainstream belief that somehow post-modernism created a crazier world, when the vast majority of artists and thinkers labeled post-modern are describing they crazy world they see, not arguing for it's existence.

Of course there are many perspectives on exactly what it is that creates these trends, for example their are plenty of theorists who posit post-modernism as a reaction to the horrors of WWII and a complete rejection of any claims Western culture has to truth or value (whereas the Moderns are generally considered to be making a last ditch effort to salvage Western culture), while other theorists view post-modernism as largely the result of late stage capitalism.

So whatever your opinions about the condition of (post) modernism, it's worth double checking your causal assumptions.

[zozbot234]

Historically, the horrors of WWII were not meaningfully different, except perhaps in their sheer scale, from the horrors of WWI. It goes without saying that the destruction associated with war is not exactly conducive to development of agreed-upon "truth", shared "value" or highly refined culture. But even WWII was roughly 80 years ago! If you still see the world as "crazy", this probably says more about you and your contingent opinions than about what the world is really like. For one thing, in the modern globalized world, "Western culture" is not what it used to be: so much of it is now effectively coming from outside the West proper. Even a term like 'late stage capitalism' really fails to capture this development.