Just got this from a well versed associate and he is 100% spot on:
"The difficulty of attempting a true dialog with a committed Postmodernist [I would say a liberal], no matter their discipline (medicine, law, science, psychology, history—you name it) is that “truth” really has no objective meaning. The mantra is, “Well that may be your truth, but it is not mine”. I am sure you have heard this actually articulated in conversations you have with colleagues. Everything is seen through an ideological lens. One of the great frustrations for those of us who have been engaged in countering “The Great COVID Disaster” and its sister, “The Great Ethical Collapse”, is the thought, if we just submitted enough DATA, of course they would listen. They didn’t, and they won’t. This has nothing to do with “data”. “Critical theory”, no matter where it is applied, is, ironically, the antithesis of “critical thinking”.
For a Postmodernist, an individual, a scientific theory or a national policy has absolutely nothing to do with facts…only with “truth”, and truth is defined by ideology. Biden said as much on the stump in Iowa in 2019:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RjcRJ3Z70
We have already arrived at a version of 1984. Inconvenient studies, no matter how scientifically valid, like those dealing with early treatment of COVID, are just cancelled, like their proponents, because they don’t fit the ideology. Web pages are “disappeared” if they are inconvenient for the political ideology of those in power or those who disagree with you.
We are closer to the Abyss than I think most people realize. Unless an objective definition of truth, based on facts, is re-established. We really have no future. If our society survives, we will enter a period of time like that of the “religious” persecution of Galileo or The Inquisition. Neither had anything to do with God. They were evil, not good. Based on power, not truth. So far the burning at the stake has only concerned one’s professional life, but if this spills over into political power……Antifa and the pro-Hamas hatred of Israel and Jews is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a roiling mass of evil in our society, just below the surface… Every once in a while, we get glimpses of it.
Unfortunately, if you read the final book of the Bible or take Isaiah at his word that there will come a time when good is called evil and evil good, and if you believe it (I do), a terrible collapse will happen one day. All we can do is forestall it a bit. I think we can, and we should.
Just got this from a well versed associate and he is 100% spot on:
"The difficulty of attempting a true dialog with a committed Postmodernist [I would say a liberal], no matter their discipline (medicine, law, science, psychology, history—you name it) is that “truth” really has no objective meaning. The mantra is, “Well that may be your truth, but it is not mine”. I am sure you have heard this actually articulated in conversations you have with colleagues. Everything is seen through an ideological lens. One of the great frustrations for those of us who have been engaged in countering “The Great COVID Disaster” and its sister, “The Great Ethical Collapse”, is the thought, if we just submitted enough DATA, of course they would listen. They didn’t, and they won’t. This has nothing to do with “data”. “Critical theory”, no matter where it is applied, is, ironically, the antithesis of “critical thinking”.
For a Postmodernist, an individual, a scientific theory or a national policy has absolutely nothing to do with facts…only with “truth”, and truth is defined by ideology. Biden said as much on the stump in Iowa in 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RjcRJ3Z70
We have already arrived at a version of 1984. Inconvenient studies, no matter how scientifically valid, like those dealing with early treatment of COVID, are just cancelled, like their proponents, because they don’t fit the ideology. Web pages are “disappeared” if they are inconvenient for the political ideology of those in power or those who disagree with you.
We are closer to the Abyss than I think most people realize. Unless an objective definition of truth, based on facts, is re-established. We really have no future. If our society survives, we will enter a period of time like that of the “religious” persecution of Galileo or The Inquisition. Neither had anything to do with God. They were evil, not good. Based on power, not truth. So far the burning at the stake has only concerned one’s professional life, but if this spills over into political power……Antifa and the pro-Hamas hatred of Israel and Jews is only the tip of the iceberg. There is a roiling mass of evil in our society, just below the surface… Every once in a while, we get glimpses of it.
Unfortunately, if you read the final book of the Bible or take Isaiah at his word that there will come a time when good is called evil and evil good, and if you believe it (I do), a terrible collapse will happen one day. All we can do is forestall it a bit. I think we can, and we should.
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