Why bother with consistency if you have already determined that truth is not restricted by facts but is constructed and personal? Certain school boards are treating knowledge as opinion and certain opinions as protected, even in contradiction to the facts. In the postmodern world of make-believe, everything is political--i.e., the management of power in regard to special interest groups. Even a value, like free speech, is politicised. Thus, its value lies in the use to which it can be put towards political aims (i.e., the desires of a group). In the following two scenarios, the two school boards are both postmodern in their views and yet contradict each other. The contradictions are of no concern to postmodern school boards, however, because the laws of logic, like facts, are no longer applicable to arguments that are concerned only with the use to which a value (like free speech) can be employed in favour of a particular group . Postmodern School Board A: 'Children, you mu