Why can't postmodernists handle ambiguity and doubt?

 In a puritanical rage against the messiness and complexity of ambiguity, of truth, of life itself, they flee to a position of nihilistic absolutism: There's no such thing as historical truth, there are no facts, there are only texts, the interpretation and "construction" of which can not be separated from the hidden agenda of those doing the "constructing." 

All such judgments thus need to be de-constructed, delegitimized. There is no point in acquiring further knowledge, more facts, and there are no truths about texts, just interpretations.

How cowardice ...

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