By dispensing with totalizing metanarratives, postmodernism is left without the conceptual resources to understand the voice of the other at all. There is no human nature, language is merely a social construction unrelated to objective reality, and there is no God-given meaning or value in the world. Therefore, various cultures and kinds of people become opaque to one another—monads of otherness, as it were.

—Douglas Groothuis, Truth Decay