Today, people are far less likely to trust authority or institutions. That’s good news because our authorities and institutions are not to be trusted. They lied to us about Iraq and Afghanistan; they lied to us about electoral integrity; they lied to us about Covid; they lie to us about about the consequences of ballooning national debt; the lie to us about nearly everything and they lie all the time. They do this to protect their class and its privileges. But the unintended consequence is that they have done something far worse - they destroyed our faith in reality itself.
As we watch the latest scenes from Kabul of panicked crowds of Americans and others trying to flee the Taliban and listen to Biden's explanation of the chaos, is it cynical to ask ourselves if anything the President says is true?
In this new world - when wishful thinking collides with facts, facts are discarded - where do we go to find the truth? If truth is relative, what then is the nature of reality?
Even Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, when he testified to Congress in June, said the biggest threat to America's security was White Supremacy and the cure for it was to study and learn from Critical Race Theory. But, unfortunately, "facts are stubborn things."
Now we are witnessing the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan which has quickly become the most embarrassing national security debacle since the Vietnam War.
It would be easy to conclude that Gen. Milley is either completely stupid or is ideologically straight-jacketed but either of those conclusions could be found wanting by the gut feeling that he is simply outright lying. He is simply trying to save his sorry soul in this pathetic attempt to please his political masters. Lying is easy when there’s no belief in truth.
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