Cosmological selfie is extension to that word 'post modernism' I think.

If you watch Solaris, nothing more than the pretense that Clarke has in mind for the conspiracy that humanity must protect itself from dangerous ideas that it can't handle, unless you were Native American or of some tribe regularly in 'contact'.  Yes, and to a degree nothing less than one might imagine having been visited by the 'grand inquisitor' given to the hefty hand of accusation, or generally as one would understand given to certain tabloid reduction.

Though I am wondering of that 'knowledge' that seemingly puts one into further seclusion.  That is in having learned that the rest of the intelligent universe, save humans alone, blew themselves into smithereens.  Fear and paranoia rests, by the closer midnight hour, of all the same urgency that were stated decades before.  Ever certain though of this existential essence might have been en grained in a given moment in time...this moment in time is where the shadow of a millisecond of the cosmological clock works upon the human minds ever certain presence in believing.

Given all the emptiness of space, even while Earth could be wrecked into oblivion.  It is 'what you do with that knowledge' that makes us so privileged.  Doesn't it feel anymore the invitation towards something?  One has the sense of the demand of mankind in 'free willing' itself over the precipice.  

Uniqueness is gone in such a moment..at least not relative to the rest that pooped out when everything were supposedly just getting started.  That last 'sacrilegious grain of truth' came out all foul mouthed, 'This planet was a real shit hole anyways...'

'America used to be great you know'.