Objective Truth
"The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history." - George Orwell
The modern world must be a confusing place for children to come of age, as facts and truth have become secondary to feelings and the whims of popular opinion.
On a bevy of issues, we are repeatedly told by policymakers and the media to trust the experts and follow the science. And yet, when experts or theories are wrong or contradict themselves there are absolutely no consequences and there is rarely an opportunity for alternative viewpoints to penetrate the mainstream groupthink before the experts have issued their new declarations.
It is getting harder to know who to trust, as formerly impartial resources become politicized and choose virtue-signaling support for the "woke" issue of the day over objective truths rooted in actual science.
Take the American Medical Association for example. Recently, they set aside science in the name of political correctness and came out in favor of removing sex designation from birth certificates because it "perpetuates a view that sex designation is permanent."
While we should never intentionally denigrate those who live life differently than we do, it is not incumbent on a free society to outright deny the existence of biological sex because it creates cognitive dissonance for a small portion of the population.
As stated by Colin Wright: "The existence of only two sexes does not mean sex is never ambiguous. But intersex individuals are extremely rare, and they are neither a third sex nor proof that sex is a “spectrum” or a “social construct.” Not everyone needs to be discretely assignable to one or the other sex for biological sex to be functionally binary -- which it is.
When authoritative scientific institutions ignore or deny empirical fact in the name of social accommodation, it is an egregious betrayal to the scientific community they represent. It undermines public trust in science, and it is dangerously harmful to those most vulnerable."
Who is going to trust the "experts" at the American Medical Association for advice on COVID-19, when they fail to acknowledge the basics we all learned in ninth-grade biology? Only those who continue to don multiple masks and advocate for never-ending lockdowns and mandates, despite the fact these same individuals are already fully vaccinated against the virus.
In an age where monopolistic gatekeepers can quite literally deplatform individuals for holding factual but unpopular views, it is becoming more difficult to even present dissenting viewpoints online and build support for a non-mainstream cause. All it takes is a low-level staff member at Facebook or Twitter to consider your content to be "misinformation" and you can be instantly censored and have your voice stripped away.
Ironically, these social media companies seem so concerned about the impact of the conspiracies peddled by provocateurs like Alex Jones, but seem to have no issues with mainstream voices like Dr. Anthony Fauci lying to the American people in the name of public health.
While Jones' statements on Sandy Hook were unquestionably offensive, almost no one believed them and they had virtually no impact on our day-to-day lives. Meanwhile, Fauci's statements have led to a series of bad public policy decisions by misinformed policymakers that have crippled our civil liberties while closing thousands of American businesses for good. And yet, one of these individuals has been completely banned from social media, while the other is leveraging his newfound stardom to write what is sure to be a best-selling book.
Citizens have to stop taking the easy road and accepting everything we are told by so-called experts as gospel. Experts need to stop allowing their political views and desire for praise to get in the way of being objective in their presentation of facts and information. Operating like this would make the world a better place for everyone, but it requires a dedication to objective truth over our personal convictions and beliefs.
As a society, we can be accepting and welcoming of others without changing our pronouns or revising our biology textbooks with inaccurate information. We can be honest about what we do and don't know about COVID-19, instead of lying and cherry-picking data to justify our solution of choice.
Can we get there? Only time will tell.
"Totalitarianism, however, does not so much promise an age of faith as an age of schizophrenia. A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud. Such a society, no matter how long it persists, can never afford to become either tolerant or intellectually stable." - George Orwell
