The destruction of truth is at the heart of Western cultural decline

Telegraph ^ | Jan 15, 2023

[aquila48]

'There’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.” So says Prince Harry, who may be as credible a philosopher as I am a weightlifter. But his words summed up the big question of our postmodern age. What is truth anyway?

The prince across the water is now the world’s most famous truth bender, but he is far from alone. Last Friday, Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and US television presenter, defended the notorious skit in which he asserted there had been a “racist backlash” in Britain when Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister.

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But for the Worthy People truth can be whatever they like, words can mean whatever they choose, and what is said to be offensive in a different context might be reasonable – even progressive and brave – when they speak. This is how we end up with events and job opportunities restricted to people based on skin colour, and the Left writing off black conservatives as not really black, or white people for supposedly inherent guilt.

The intellectual origins of this nonsense go back to the postmodernism of thinkers like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Discourse is oppressive. Language, custom and tradition exploit the weak and sustain the powerful in their privilege. Victims of the powerful participate in their own oppression through their assumed social roles.

[aquila48]

The insanity called "Postmodernism" is at the bottom of the dystopia we're currently living in.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[beethovenfan]

Jesus is the truth. Start there.

[Navy Patriot]

I hit a paywall, so I opened author Nick Timothy's link which had a number of interestingly headlined articles.

Not certain, but he may be a fairly reasonable journalist.

I will bookmark this article and open it in Brave to read it in full, it looks like a worthwhile find.

[kiryandil]

'There’s just as much truth in what I remember and how I remember it as there is in so-called objective facts.” So says Prince Harry, who may be as credible a philosopher as I am a weightlifter.

Solipsism:

the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

"solipsism is an idealist thesis because ‘Only my mind exists’ entails ‘Only minds exist’"

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The United States: "The Empire of Lies."

[Jim W N]

The destruction of truth in politics and society is only a by-product of a deeper issue of individuals’ denial of the truth of the Gospel of the Grace of Christ.

Around 1900, the church and the world turned from Christ and decided to go on without God (Revelation 3:14-22) beginning the inevitable march towards the total annihilation soon to come. “God is dead” was the chant. Jesus is seen standing outside the door of the church and the world knocking an asking to be let in (verse 20).

Turning from trusting in God to trusting in man carries a curse (Jer. 17:5-6) and is the root cause of not receiving the love of the truth and instead loving, making, and believing a lie. To those who wo not repent, strong delusion and damnation is coming. However, there is still time. We are still in the dispensation of God’s open door of grace and acceptance of souls. But soon, that door will close.

[SaveFerris]

[The destruction of truth is at the heart of Western cultural decline]

‘1984’ wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual.

[stinkerpot65]

Democrats are evil scum.

Truth.

[Savage Beast]

Contempt for TRUTH—TRUTH for its own sake—is the evil most fundamental to the Decadence of Western Civilization.