A student told me that he doubted the reality of good and right, wrong and evil, because they are “abstract” qualities. I mention the anecdote because I hear this sort of thing often (and also for penance, because long ago I used to say things like that myself).
On some campuses students have demanded and won the establishment of “safe spaces” in which they don’t have to hear non-woke opinions (called “micro-aggressions”) and can calm themselves with coloring books and other childish distractions. They don’t even have to bring their own coloring books, because college officials supply them for free.
Is there anything that isn’t racist?
Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors: Study
Of course the schools need to re-open, but one of the arguments for opening them is ridiculous. It’s true that kids who never see other kids will suffer “social damage,” but who made the rule that kids can’t see other kids unless they are warehoused in a school? In some schools, they may suffer social damage just by being there.
“If there really were a natural law, then everyone would know it.”
I confess to a bias: Irrespective of what people believe or disbelieve about this or that, I like clear thinking and dislike mental fog.
A woman was quoted recently as saying about the disturbances in Seattle, “I am excited about the idea of non-hierarchical leadership.” That’s fog.
Some scientists claim that influenza is the smartest virus in history, because it is so good at fighting off everything that physicians throw at it. Others make the same claim about the HIV virus, because it so cleverly hides from the body’s defense mechanisms, and about the Ebola virus, because it has so many ways to attach itself to cells.
Now the cancel culture has reached the United States Constitution. A Con law professor writes in The Hill that it is time to expunge its “gendered and racist words.”
Writers often compare the beauty of the pagan myths with the brutality of the biblical story. This is doubly wrong. In the first place, the biblical chronicles are not trying to be beautiful. They are saying this is how history is when we rebel against God. You can find beauty in the Bible’s poetry, but you shouldn’t expect it in its history.