Past the point of ordinary meaning

"With post-modernism, meaning drains away. Art becomes a game in which the emptiness of a wholly insubstantial world, in which there is nothing beyond the set of terms we have in vain used to 'construct' meaning, is allowed to speak for its own vacuity. The set of terms are now seen simply to refer to themselves. They have lost transparency; and all conditions that would yield meaning have been ironised out of existence.

"Subjects with schizophrenia display what Sass describes as a 'distinctive combination of superiority and impotence.' ... [which] is perhaps most evident in post-modernism." (The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist, 2009; page 422). 

This post-modernist condition of hermeneutic overkill and of a bleaching out of the possibility of meaningful creative invention is oddly reminiscent of ultra-Orthodoxy. The 'distinctive combination of superiority and impotence' and the driving of words past the point of ordinary meaning by an excess of self-consciousness and an excess of attention to process over content could just as well be describing ultra-Orthodoxy as it could be post-modern literary criticism. Diaspora is as much a 'wholly insubstantial world' as anything the effete post-modern elites could conjure up. 

Exile is a condition of spiritual disease, dis-ease. In the end, it must be renounced, it must not be glorified, for the sake of what is right and good in the world.