Well, if we look at Postmodernism we notice that, aside from it being a rejection of modernism, it is also a sort of progression, towards efficiency and a form of perfected imperfection.
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut, can be viewed as a postmodernist novel. When we look at religion, and truth, as a whole, it becomes clear that "Nothing in this book is true". Vonnegut creates a religion within his novel, it is called Bokononism and it is centered around how the perspective of the Earth as we know it is the truth that is lies. An idea presented in the Books of Bokonon is "Live by the foma (lies) that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy". In our society, lets assume for a second that it is based around Christianity, then we as a people base our lives on the truth that Jesus is the Son of Gos, and that He gave His life for our salvation. We believe that as a truth. But as for Bokonon, he emphasizes that life itself is our truth and nothing else can be considered one truly. So if we consider a modern view to be one like most Europeans see when they centered their whole societies around Christianity and all of their morals as well. But if Bokononism is postmodernist, then it would be the opposite, in which there is almost no center, and that which there is emphasizes opposite morals, like
boko-maru, where there is promiscuity with others, like Mona and the pilot while she was engaged to Frank. Or the fact that the religion is supposed to be looked at as a lie, while Christianity is nothing but truth. So, since the novel is greatly built around Bokononism, we can easily see the novel as pertaining to a postmodernist view.
