I want to propose some new words for those who want to use words like postmodern, post-history and post-political: extra-historical, extra-modern, extra-political and extra-temporal. The extra in these words signifies being outside of something as in the word extraordinary. Extra-historical refers to events that are ignored by mainstream history books, mostly things that would challenge the point of view of the majority of society, conservative aspects of society mostly. An example of this would be that Helen Keller was a radical. Extra-political would refer to those who are disenfranchised by restrictive voting laws. It would also refer to those who have given up hope with the election process, because they see elections being bought with their votes meaning nothing. Extra-modern refers to those things that are cheap imitations of things that have been done over and over again, things that were once radical but have become cliches. Extra-temporal refers to those things that are timeless or things that are quickly forgotten. Hopefully these terms will never catch on.
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