Posted on 10/17/2021 2:34:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
With societal turbulence all around us, many people feel that we are locked in some great and portentous struggle. But because it is so pervasive and multifaced, the nature of this struggle is not readily obvious. There are many fronts on which this struggle is being fought: racial relations, education, healthcare, popular culture, financial system, and freedom of speech, among others. It is not easy to make sense of it all, especially since the battles are highly pitched and emotions are running very high.
What characterizes these battles, besides their intensity, is deep polarization. The possibility of the warring camps coming together and meeting on some common ground seems to be growing more distant by the day. There is even talk that the two sides will either come to blows, or they will each go their own way in some form of secession.
Many have observed that the contenders seem to be separated by an unbridgeable gap, and yet no one has been able to explain the nature of this gap, or what exactly it is that separates the mindsets of the opposing sides.
In our view the great struggle in the grip of which we find ourselves cuts much deeper than the immediate issues we argue over. The real fight extends beyond any particular point of public friction.
The great battle of our time is a battle about the very nature of reality. More precisely, what the two sides war over on the most fundamental level is what constitutes truth and how it should be determined.
To shed light on this dynamic, let us take one of the heated controversies of the present time. For this we choose transgenderism.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
It’s about objectivity vs. relativity. Political correctness places comfort above truth, as though we can change the truth into something more comfortable to our flawed nature if the truth is just as flawed. But everyone must first be forced to believe it, or the illusion is destroyed. So free will becomes the enemy.
The believers in an alternate non-reality such as this are likely reprobate and coming under strong delusion.
I’ve never seen anything like it my whole life.
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If a surgeon implants a thousand feathers under a person’s skin - they’re still NOT A BIRD.
They might ‘feel’ like a bird... remember thinking they were a bird when they were 4 years old. Always wore a bird costume for Halloween - but the person is not a bird. At best, they’re a person with a thousand feathers sticking out from their skin.
Period.
And they’ll never fly.
As I’ve watched this deterioration over the last few decades, I penned a phrase around the turn of the century: If I were a Gazelle, I’d rather live in the freedom and danger of the wild plains than the comforts of a zoo.
Most in the western world have opted for the zoo.
What are we going to do about it?
To put it another way, it is now becoming a crime to honestly declare reality as it is presented to us by our sensory apparatus.
Denial of reality is the contemporary Left’s ideological stance
Gaslighting is now an integral part of the left’s every move, and it is sowing confusion and wreaking havoc everywhere.
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