Certainly Uncertain

Why You Should Never Trust Someone Who Claims They Know

I can already see some of you scratching your heads after that title. “Aren’t we supposed to know things?”

Yes, and no.

It depends on what you mean by knowledge. In the modern world, knowledge is presented as certainty. But NO ONE is certain about anything. (Except that we’re uncertain.)

Certainty is an illusion because of our differing perspectives. And in the 90s, postmodernists weaponized that illusion to come up with clever sayings like, “There is no absolute truth.”

They theorized with their over-inflated egos and leaky pens that since we can’t agree on anything, nothing is absolute. Calling it “relativity.”

We can define truth however we want. Your truth is your truth, his truth is his truth, her truth is her truth. Like the violent spin cycle on some devilish washing machine. (Fascinating how they never applied their theory of relativity to the theory of evolution, but that’s a story for another time.)

Relativity made truth subjective instead of objective, and it didn’t take long before problems were noticeable:

• “There is no absolute truth” is an absolute truth claim (self-defeating)

• Living it out meant nothing could be challenged (all narratives are valid)

• Right and wrong became mere fictions of the mind (collapse of morality)

• People could self-identify as anything they wanted (proto-transgenderism)

Relativity taken to its logical conclusion would lead to everyone aimlessly adrift on an ocean of “truths” without a paddle and with no direction.

The wisest scholars prophetically saw postmodernism would ruin the very foundation of research and thought. So, postmodernism wasn’t taken seriously…at first.

Scholars laughed it off.

However, as with all acidic absurdities, proponents of postmodernism (mostly feminists, but eventually communists too) hammered their worldview into the minds of their students until they could think of nothing other than truth as chaotic flux. It wasn’t long before relativity seeped from the university into the culture.

The enemy is now in our midst. But if we can’t be certain, how do we know anything? And how do we defeat the legacy of the postmodernists?