Anamnesis post class habermas/lyotard

After discussing Lyotard and Habermas, I found Habermas' interpretation of postmodernism to be more sober and realistic. Lyotard wants to embrace postmodernism and treat it as an entity, associating all kind of terms with it. Habermas treats it as if it never happened and it is rather something that is imagined.

One common thread in all the definitions of postmodernism is conflict: design is conflicting, language is conflicting, governments are conflicting. That this conflict is more prevalent and varied today doesn't say much to me. Like a river, history flows into it's natural eddies and rapids and creates its own tributaries. eventually the river will dry up, go into the ocean, or join other rivers. There's nothing so different about the time in which we live other than technology. Humans remain fundamentally the same throughout time, whether they are on earth or on mars. In 2001: A
Space Odyssey, primates gather around a mysterious monolith, perplexed and exited by its simplicity and sudden arrival. Later in the film, when the monolith reappears and humans have developed spaceships, they gather around it in the very same manner, totally vexed by it's bleak simplicity.