When the New Was New...

One of the biggest things that really stuck out to me about Lyotard's article was his questioning of how artists, experimenters, ect are questioned by authority and by society when they create something that is completely new. He says there is, "an identical call for order, a desire for unity, for identification, for security, or popularity." This makes me think about all the "new," but now old, ideas, inventions that have been introduced and were first rejected, but they eventually changed our society for the better. Over time we adapt these things into our culture and eventually they possibly become the postmodern. Lyotard uses the phrases "nostalgic" and the "missing contents" to describe the postmodern. I like this terminology because it shows that something that is postmodern is something from the past and its just changed from its first form.