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While I think abortion is ground zero for our dissolving social consensus, I think postmodernism was a critical point on the path that brought us to this general collapse. It is why nobody will discuss or debate anything any longer, but instead will unfriend, ban, censor, blacklist, boycott, divest, shout down, bully, throw punches, and so forth.
Postmodernism holds that there is no truth. “Our truth” is whatever we choose to believe. Truth is willed.
This becomes an immediate and critical problem the moment we encounter someone else whose “truth” contradicts our own. Since reality is an act of will, there is no way to resolve this difference other than imposing one’s own will, using whatever force is at hand to make then recant, or die. This becomes a total war of all against all.
Immoral? If there is no truth, there is no true moral good either, is there? “Good” too is whatever I will it to be. Meaning good is getting whatever I want, as expeditiously as possible. This is really the core belief of postmodernism. Postmodernism arose as a way to justify the obvious moral wrong of abortion.
There could be no more objectively evil or socially destructive doctrine than this.
Sodom and Gomorrah disappeared in sheets of flame for less than this. Beyond a certain point, there is no way a society can recover from this sort of thing.
Perhaps this is what Glenn Beck or Leonard Cohen have been sensing.
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