Mike

>>However, your defintion of PostModern Nihilism may be somewhat more similar to my world views, but this is just a name, something that someone with an agenda created.<<

But surely everything is just a name, a conceit, an attempt to create meaning? If there is no morality, what is there but a collection of competing agendas?

>>Before "PostModern Nihilism" was coined, people like me were called "scientists". <<

Perhaps you mean that once scientists begin questioning metanarratives, they become Nihilists? Theorists say that nihilism is often rooted in a desire for Intellectual honesty. My response would be that science itself is eventually based on assumptions- try asking "prove it" every step of the way and you will see- so society should also be allowed to create metanarrative building blocks for itself. Any concept of "liberty" relies on that- otherwise society would be a set of endlessly warring selfish actions with others viewed as competitors blocking our inalienable rights; and there would be no "crime" because the criminal is not disobeying his own rules.

Regards

JR