"The 'posts' seem to want to proliferate", wrote Linda Hutcheon in 1994. It's the year 2024, and the 'posts' are everywhere. This insight unpacks the contradictory and competing values that invariably attach themselves to the prefix "post-" by building upon the writings of Ann McClintock, Naika Foroutan, Jean-François Lyotard, and Rita Felski, among others. It argues that the perceived ubiquity of posts today evidences the ongoing competition of various temporal communities for the right to define what the "coming after modernity" means for today in ethical and political terms.