 But when he was writing, it was just the beginning. In the 1960s, the French gave it to us, postmodernism, this idea that truth is a fiction. This is the driving force behind a lot of the problems that we have in our society today. The average person doesn't believe it, but the average elite does. I even give an example in the book of a woman who I had never heard of before. She's a philosopher by the name of Laurie Calhoun.