Possible to synthesise - not sure, but supersede and incorporate values and members of both, I believe so.
What would it look like… you’ve probably already experienced it. When you study a new subject, eg language, all the lessons makes sense, but at some stage it clicks, and makes sense to you. This is what the process of understanding is like.
Collective experience online, evolution over time, evolving socioeconomic conditions, etc, and History are all complex forms of experience that we’ve lived through. We’ve all noticed patterns within the experience.
A coherent narrative will emerge that identifies these patterns, provides a coherent explanation of them; one that makes sense to us, but also resolves sources of incoherence in our individual understanding of them.
At this stage, the intention is that it will just click, i.e. an emergent comprehension of history, and the vision of future that follows from it. All of which will seem obvious in retrospect. Just like when we become fluent in a new language, we struggle to remember what it was like when we were struggling to understand it.
“Would you agree…?”
Postmodernism is aware of insufficiencies in the foundations of modernism, is critical of them, but is not itself progressive. It remains stuck at critique without changing modernism at all, and it lacks the tools to progress further beyond this.
Modernism, in its arrogance, believes post-modernism is ‘intellectually immature’ when they call for more revolutionary means of progress.