Narratives or facts and truth; what’s the difference? The news media are projecting a “narrative”. The fact news people are doing narratives, that the word is part of the lexicon conveys a message. We are in trouble.
The word “narrative” suggests there’s no objective truth. There’s no real reporting of the facts. They are weaving a story about what could have happened. The problem is; everyone has their own narrative.
We have gotten to where the press justifies presenting a story. The story doesn’t really correspond to objective truth. It’s their narrative, we have a narrative, and you have a ‘narrative.’ But nobody knows what actually happened. Shouldn’t we care what is actually happening?
For decades progressives in academia, politics, and religion have cast moral absolutes to the wind. They prefer relativism. Now we are watching as the whirlwind has its day in cities across our country. Our cultural abandonment of objective truth should come as no surprise.
How do you make a decision about making things better?
Last year at the University of Notre Dame, the attorney general delivered a speech. He spoke on the role of religion in a free society. Included was an explanation of the constitutional imperative to protect religious freedom. You can listen to it here.
The attorney general isn’t breaking any new philosophical ground. He is standing across the line of history yelling ‘Stop!’ He is in good company. Why did Thomas Jefferson claim human equality and human rights share the same divine source? Do you believe it was a theoretical exercise? He declared them to be self-evident truths.
The Founding Fathers did not claim their grievances with King George III were a difference of opinions. The Declaration of Independence reads in part:
“… The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.”
If there were no truth, there could be no facts for a candid world to consider. Narratives or facts and truth; what’s the difference? Just think about it.