“But, at the same time, no one should nervously imagine that this critique of the Enlightenment proceeds from any relativistic postmodern nonsense. The modernist and postmodernist share this one thing in common: They both hold, at bottom, that metaphor is meaningless. The modernist goes off to find meaning somewhere else, suitably formulaic, and the postmodernist says that everything is metaphor, and hence everything is meaningless — except for the self-awareness of the meaninglessness, but we were not expecting him to be consistent” (The Case for Classical Christian Education, p. 156).
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