For me, I think the realization of how Relativism’s influence has
seeped into our collective unconscious and caused logic-rot started
with my study of Feminism. In college, we men were taught that our deepest feelings
were shameful, so shameful, that even the appearance of looking at a
woman was tantamount to rape and, at the very least, an offense that’d
get you referred to the ombudsman. If I could equate unspoken thoughts
with the worst horror imaginable, it actually “felt” logical.
Today, these issues are in play on the slippery waterslide slope in the waterpark that is Relativism:
- Even the appearance of torture is equivalent to torture (people
out of touch with the grey areas of the Geneva Convention, standard
interrogation practices, etc.)
- Even the appearance of pursuing nuclear technology is equivalent
to nuclear weaponry (anachronistic Cold Warriors, lifetime Axis of Evil subscription
holders, people unfamiliar with the concept of Atoms for Peace or the
inevitability of progress)
- Even the appearance of disengagement is ethnic cleansing (Rachel
Neuwirth, Joseph Farah and other Zionists opposing the pullout in Gaza)