“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (John 8:32 of New King James Version.)
Until very recently—in at least most of the West—these words were understood and acknowledged as the foundation of all civilization and the bedrock of decent society. Unfortunately, what was once commonly understood by enlightened human beings has now been pretty much rejected out of hand. Beginning with the “Enlightenment”–and never has an era been less aptly named!—truth and objectivity began to be replaced by the concept of relativism: that is, a belief in changeable standards.
An example of relativism is, for instance, the claim that even the most atrocious of crimes might be absolved under the proper mitigating circumstances. Those who hold this philosophy boldly contend that “everything is relative” while, in turn, failing to recognize that the statement is itself an absolute! Eventually the very concept of absolute truth was utterly rejected by the 20th Century’s dominant moral philosophy, Post Modernism.
Of course, the problem with this type of worldview is that it fails to take into account that certain things simply aren’t open to “interpretation.” No amount of wishing or believing can change physical reality. Two plus two does in fact equal four! Physical laws such as gravity and inertia cannot be contravened by human desire or a positive attitude. Old adages such as “you cannot make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” and “time and tide wait for no man” were expressions of those existential realities that could not be wished or ordered away! Today, however, we are constantly afflicted by the visions of people who believe that reality is determined by feelings, sincerity and desire. The motto of the current Age has been pretty much defined in the statement made by leftist actress Jane Fonda so many years ago, “I must be right, I’m so sincere!”
And yet, today’s nimrods have actually managed to, if not change reality, then to act as if they had done so and the rest of the culture goes along for the ride. It makes one wonder who is more insane: the habitually offended or those around them who do not respond to their flagrant idiocy by giving them a swift boot in the backside. For instance, in a further attempt to achieve “fairness” or “equality,” it would seem that today’s “educators”—and there is another word that has been perverted!—have declared that mathematics is “racist!” And whence comes this idiotic idea? Apparently large numbers in a certain elect and protected group do not do well in that discipline. Now if everybody was equally poor in math, all well and good—but that would still not make it “racist! However, because the problem appears to exist only in that same “elect group,” it is reasonable to believe—according to today’s “educators”—that the problem is mathematics, not the people in that group. That’s the kind of “sense” being made today—and it has a name: nonsense!
The real damage being done to mankind by this failure to embrace reality is that when reality actually does intrude into society, wishful thinking is a poor defense against the resultant catastrophe. Remember, mankind was never all that rational and reasonable when absolutes were understood and acknowledged! Take as an example, the Indians in Pennsylvania who tried dissuade white settlers from building a city at the end of a valley containing the confluence of three rivers! Of course, those settlers believed that they knew better than the “primitives” who had lived for generations in the area and so they went and built the city of Johnstown! The result has been the three catastrophic floods, the worst in 1889 and the others only slightly less disastrous in 1936 and 1977!
The people in Johnstown believed that they could build their city in a dangerous place because they wanted to believe it. Post Modernists believe there are no moral or any other absolutes because they want to! For a long time the people of Johnstown were spared the prophesied disaster, but all they had to do was look with a clear and reasoning eye at the existing situation and they could not fail to have anticipated the inevitable consequences and perhaps even take steps to ameliorate those consequences—but they didn’t; they were blinded by a desire that overcame reality. Yes, the city remained where it was built, but all of their determined desire could not protect those who perished when reality returned—as it always does!
Another clear example of a belief being destroyed by reality can be found in the field of women’s sports, especially in academia. Remember Title 9? That decree was enacted by the government to force schools to provide financial support for women’s sports. Since these did not draw the same attendance and revenue as did men’s sports, schools put more funding into the latter. Title 9 forced schools to finance women’s sports whether or not the public had an interest in them. Score one for the feminists—or so it was believed.
Then came the current sexual apocalypse led by the “Trans-Gender Movement.” Under this “movement,” an individual can “self-identify” as whatever gender he-she-it chooses. As a result, many women’s sports have become dominated by “transgender” males whose physical strength and size overwhelm biologically female competitors! The result is a travesty wherein women who were supposed to benefit from the increased interest in and funding of “women’s sports” now find themselves overwhelmed in those same sports by males masquerading as females!
Even worse, the present politically correct interpretation of the whole gender-transgender movement prevents women athletes from protesting their subordinate situation lest they be branded as intolerant! Consider how much time and money would have been saved if women had simply been allowed to compete in men’s sports! After all, that is pretty much what is going on now! However, this situation is also very dangerous. A young woman boxer had her skull fractured in a bout with a transgender male illustrating the reason why society didn’t let girls play on boys’ teams in the first place! In the end, most female athletes can no longer successfully compete in their own sports when a “trans-gender” is present in the same competition!
As the rejection of reality grows ever more absolute, it also becomes apocalyptic; that is, the dangers involved increase both swiftly and exponentially through the creation of conditions that no one could have predicted and therefore addressed once they occurred. When the direct consequences of actions are ignored or rejected because they are not desirous, the results are often without precedent. Open borders and “sanctuary cities” have become repositories of diseases long dead in the West or, in the alternative, never before seen except in textbooks. Most diseases in Africa are due to what is called a “fecalized environment.” Human feces is very dangerous especially in the transmission of disease, and when the streets of our cities–-even some of our most beautiful and wealthy cities–-are covered with human excrement, the results are devastating. Several police officers in Los Angeles have already been diagnosed with typhoid! This is a disease arising from filth and human waste, a condition that killed countless millions in the days before Western techniques of public health and sanitation became routine.
Of course, where this sort of environment obtains, the rat is also found in great numbers! Apparently, Los Angeles is badly infested by these creatures. And where there is the rat there is the flea, and where there is the flea, there is the plague. The Medieval “black plague” is still with us in both its bubonic and pneumonic forms. It remains endemic in parts of Mongolia and is even occasionally found in the American Southwest, carried by prairie dogs and their fleas. How much would it take to make San Francisco or Los Angeles of 2020 into London or Paris of 1300!? And while there are now drugs that can address the plague, it is by no means easily cured or terminated! Furthermore, in the Middle Ages, most people didn’t travel very far, but today, modern transportation can carry people everywhere during the plague’s ten day incubation period, thus spreading death far beyond the liberal sanctuary cities that spawned it.
And what is the cause of this madness? A refusal by far too many people and their government hirelings to accept reality when they prefer to embrace false prophets and ideologies. The danger to all mankind grows daily but the sad thing is that those of us who do accept truth and recognize absolutes are not immune to the disasters perpetrated by those who do not. To quote that great Western philosopher, Walt Kelly, the creator of the comic book character, Pogo Possum, “We has met the enemy and he is us!”
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