The essential quality of the genuinely postmodern man can now only be one thing: Earnestness. (One must only look to literature to see that this is true!) Those whose minds remain mired in scorn and irony have not truly grasped the blood and aphorisms that demarcate 20th century thought---one must do more than quote the conclusions of such men to understand the meaning pointed to by such a cannon. A meaning beyond conception, yet fully constructed by modern man. Thus is the conundrum laughed at (meanly) by those who have not yet transcended their own cleverness. Yet they must learn to do so before they can truly enter the 21st century, and join what hitherto remains a select few.