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In short, Hillary Clinton was the Postmodern candidate, while Donald Trump was the Metamodern candidate; and with Trumps electoral college win, we now have confirmation of this transformation from a Postmodern culture to a Metamodern culture. Indeed, most Americans were, and still are, in shock. Political pundits could not see the forest through the trees, because of their Postmodern bias held them back from seeing the truth. In fact, media bias was blatantly Postmodern, and this helped the general unforgotten populace, who had become disconnected from Postmodern thinking, propel Metamodern thinking into the limelight. Sociologist have been discussing this trend for well over a decade now, so it was no surprise to me; however, the uninformed …show more content…

They continue to attack those things they don't understand, nor perhaps ever will. Like almost every cultural realignment in our history, the political class were always late to new social changes. We can, of course, expect to see a continuation of the statue quo by the political class, who have everything to lose, or so they think. That is until they come to realize that this course of history was inevitable; as was previously predicted. The political class need only change the color of their suits to again become beneficiary of the new cultural change. We have seen this also happen throughout history, just like when the Soviet Union fell, the new leadership simply took off their military uniforms and put on new suits. The outward appearances almost always change, but so many times, the people behind the scene simply adapt and reemerge. I think we can expect to see this occur as well. So, to the big question, "How does this cultural change affect Freemasonry?" Well, simply put, I think we can see a reemergence of membership and a more general public acceptance of the ways of Freemasonry. No, it won't be like the glory days under Modernism, but it will be significantly better than under the destructiveness under Postmodernism. In conclusion, my work on the topic of Modernism, Postmodernism and MetaModernism is

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