I have dealt with this subject in a previous blog, but it warrants further comment. At the Golden Globe Awards in 2018, Oprah Winfrey addressed the crowd with the following: “Speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have.”
But might there not be a radical difference between “your truth” and The Truth? Postmodernism suggests the latter doesn’t exist. Certain metaphysical issues, no doubt, are beyond unassailable resolution. But there are also facts which are demonstrably, unequivocally true. Oprah’s sanctimonious little speech, intended to empower the “disenfranchised,” was in fact an endorsement of utter subjectivism, of every individual’s right to see the world as suits them best. Indeed it was an implicit endorsement of ignorance, self-indulgence and deceit. Not surprisingly, those very human frailties would seem to have informed the childish yet horribly destructive antics of Antifa and B.L.M. throughout the summer of 2020. A racist White cop had needlessly killed an innocent young Black man [???], George Floyd, and “their truth” told them they were perfectly entitled to behave like mindless animals!