Sabot is French for the clogs poor, rural country people used to wear. The word sabot was a derogatory term, people who wore wooden clogs, unsophisticated, slow and clumsy.
Inevitably clog wearers were seen as less connected to the wider society, they were suspicious of progress, anything that looked like change was evil. They were dense, back row inbreds. Obviously along with their lack of enthusiasm, their dumb insololent mouth breathing, they'd toss their wooden clogs into the machinery of the new industrial age in their refusal to accept progress. And that's exactly how some might view the postmodernist use of irony.
The main criticism was that postmodernism had nothing to believe in, no great theory, they were ungrounded, cynical and not at all cool in the born again sense. They were Goths with tooth aches.
Postmodernism was also a gateway drug to being a beatnik, or a hipster, a hippy, a street corner sign carrier, the end of the world is nigh and eat the flour live in the bag sort of thing. And, apparently, postmodernism was yet another gateway drug for Fake News, those random collections of lies, conjectures, hopes and dreams presented as Truth.
Postmodernism is and was the understanding that reality and knowledge are subjective, constructed by language, culture and personal experience rather than objective facts. Postmodernist's disavow grand narratives and are unmoved by the idea of universal truths in an essentially fluid universe.
Would an understanding that placed a universal, anonymous, unfeeling will into the fabric of the universe provide the transcendental signified that grounds the postmodernist understanding in a quantum wave begin to relieve postmodernism of the criticsms against it?
My answer is a flat "No!" And by the way wooden clogs are extremely comfortable, good for the feet.
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