A large amount of the philosophy around politics, in both the right and the left, is postmodern.
These people do not talk about the truth, because they only see the truth as a social construct, driven by the narrative or discourse of society, and with signfiers or code words or dog whistles attached within it that encode the values of society. They therefore think that if they control the discourse, they control the world.
Which makes them fools. For the words are not the actions people take, and facts lie as they are. You cannot unmake what has been done nust by changing your explanation of it.
And our response to this, from those who are in power, should be to call it.
1One day, as he was teaching the people in the temple and telling the good news, the chief priests and the scribes came with the elders 2and said to him, “Tell us, by what authority are you doing these things? Who is it who gave you this authority?” 3He answered them, “I will also ask you a question, and you tell me: 4Did the baptism of John come from heaven, or was it of human origin?” 5They discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’ 6But if we say, ‘Of human origin,’ all the people will stone us; for they are convinced that John was a prophet.” 7So they answered that they did not know where it came from. 8Then Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.”
In this conversation, the Pharisees were afraid to make a call. They were weighing the consequences of their words, and chose not to make a choice. This was politic. However, it was unwise, and it left the truth hidden.
And the agenda of post modernism is to leave the truth hidden. So it is time for plain speech, It is time to say the truth. It is time to ignode those who say that we are inappropriate, hateful, unwise, uncouth, and rude. It’s time to be realistic about who we are as humans, and not expect anyone to be saints.
By way of example, there was a reason why — until the 1970s — halls of residence at university were male or female. The Deans knew that they had healthy young animals (students) with limited impulse control, and thus made it more difficult for them to hook up. You had to leave… rather than go down the hall. At the other end of the age spectrum, they knew that the elderly often have cognitive impairment, and are again foolish — so had male only and female only wards. The same happened in the asylum. But now everything is co-educational, and that at times causes chaos. In all three environments — where the ability to consent is variable.
{In the students case, the ability co consent depends, of course, on their level of sobriety). Reversing this, and having single sex dormitories — which is still the practice at Bible Colleges — limits things. We should be advocating for this in all church run institutions. (We have an institution where sex is not only encouraged but mandated, It is called marriage). And if we are called prudes, members of the backward and lower classes, or suspicious, dirty minded creatures, that gives us a chance to agree, amplify, and destroy their argument. For the current elite ignore the reality of the human condition in their unspoken wish for the new Soviet man.