Empty Rhetoric
Much of the empty nonsensical rhetoric that we hear today from misguided, illogical social justice appeasers, communist-socialist university professors, ignorant-Hollywood celebrities, harebrained movie producers, radical left-wing politicians, anti-war protesters, and childish, uninformed college kids, was born in the deconstructionist, humanist, philosophy that became existentially popular in the 1960’s.
Two of its most prominent proselytizing proponents are Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn; who happen to be the architects and gurus of the present day viewpoint and belief that democracy, capitalism, and American values and culture are exclusively responsible for all the world’s ills.
This errant school of thought is the major contributor to the severe abuses of academic freedom that are prevalent in a significant percentage of our universities.
It’s the “poisonous fodder” used by power hungry politicians to appease dim-witted constituents, and is the source of ceaseless propaganda offered by fame seeking, “unbiased” reporters who wish to appear “compassionate” before their audiences in order to increase their market share.
It’s this faulty reasoning that allows idiots like Michael Moore to re-characterize murdering terrorists as freedom fighting minutemen.
It’s this defective reckoning that’s the basis of the erroneous belief that “homicidal fanatics” can be reasoned with in sit-down negotiations.
It goes something like this.....
Crime soars steadily among juveniles when parents fail to set standards of right behavior in the home.
Schoolteachers will not offer a moral opinion in he classroom either out of fear of litigation or because they themselves have no moral foundation.
Why are we shocked at disclosures of religious leaders bilking their ministries of millions when they’ve been preaching a get-rich-quick gospel all along?
Why the wonderment over the fact that, for enough fame, dollars or sexual favors, newspapers, government employees and military personnel sell out our nations secrets?
Whether we like to hear it or not, we are reaping the consequences of the decades since WW II when we have, in Solzhenitsyn’s words, “forgotten God.”
What we are left with is a reign of relativism.
Without absolutes, there is no hope for anything better. Without absolutes, there can never be anything “better”, because “better” and “worse” don’t exist.
All we are left with is a completely self-based philosophy of life that leads to hopelessness and despair.
Two of its most prominent proselytizing proponents are Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn; who happen to be the architects and gurus of the present day viewpoint and belief that democracy, capitalism, and American values and culture are exclusively responsible for all the world’s ills.
This errant school of thought is the major contributor to the severe abuses of academic freedom that are prevalent in a significant percentage of our universities.
It’s the “poisonous fodder” used by power hungry politicians to appease dim-witted constituents, and is the source of ceaseless propaganda offered by fame seeking, “unbiased” reporters who wish to appear “compassionate” before their audiences in order to increase their market share.
It’s this faulty reasoning that allows idiots like Michael Moore to re-characterize murdering terrorists as freedom fighting minutemen.
It’s this defective reckoning that’s the basis of the erroneous belief that “homicidal fanatics” can be reasoned with in sit-down negotiations.
It goes something like this.....
What you think is true is possibly quite different from what I think is true. This means that no-one has the right to say that their version of truth, right and wrong is any better than other people’s.This rejection of absolutes in Western culture has had some very profound implications.
Crime soars steadily among juveniles when parents fail to set standards of right behavior in the home.
Schoolteachers will not offer a moral opinion in he classroom either out of fear of litigation or because they themselves have no moral foundation.
Why are we shocked at disclosures of religious leaders bilking their ministries of millions when they’ve been preaching a get-rich-quick gospel all along?
Why the wonderment over the fact that, for enough fame, dollars or sexual favors, newspapers, government employees and military personnel sell out our nations secrets?
Whether we like to hear it or not, we are reaping the consequences of the decades since WW II when we have, in Solzhenitsyn’s words, “forgotten God.”
What we are left with is a reign of relativism.
Without absolutes, there is no hope for anything better. Without absolutes, there can never be anything “better”, because “better” and “worse” don’t exist.
All we are left with is a completely self-based philosophy of life that leads to hopelessness and despair.
