Reactionary politics and commentary about such. That's all I see.
How is it just reactionary. The articles I linked give arguments for the case. All your doing is making unsupported claims. I think they make a good argument and in fact their arguments are supported by the fact they are playing out in society today. Democracy is failing, the principle of Enlightenment is failing through identity politics which is anti Enlightenment because it pushes political correctness and ideologies onto the majority.
Part of the problem seems to be a reaching for "Truth" that is not the same as evidenced facts.
But transcendental ideas like 'Truth' is nonetheless a fact or a law in the universe so to speak as much as gravity. The point is a society needs a unified idea of what is true and real culturally. As colonialist the belief was Western ways of knowing the world was the truth and Indigenous peoples needed to give up their culture and assimilate into Western life.
As Christians the West believed that everyone should life as Christians and tried to spread that throughout the world. We condemned other cultures for not living according to those values. There was a clear and unified belief about what was 'truth' relating to these matters in how we should order society.
A reaching for truth 'is the fact'. We don't have to prove truth as a fact in the way science does likes its some object we can put in a test tube. Its fact is that when it comes to culture and morality we cannot achieve stability without a common and united 'Truth" as the saying goes 'A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand'.
Society always has its bases for "truth", sometimes it claims to be divine, sometimes from "tradition", or from other sources. The mix might be changing, but these things were never objective.
The idea that we strive for a truth points to there being a truth about how we should live and be ordered as a society. That we have tried different ways of achieving that doesn't negate the fact that there may be a truth to how we should live and be ordered as a society. Like anything its a case of trying to find that best way to live. Secular society believes it can achieve some true utopia of life.
The point is we lived the truth of God for millennia. Now we have rejected that truth and now there is no truth. That is what is causing the problems, that a society can somehow stumble along without a united truth and accommodate all relative truths at the same time. It just doesn't work.
You continue to use the word "truth" in ways that don't seem anything to do with the truth of an claim. Rather they seem to be about various "core dogmas".
Dogma happens when people deny the truth and as a result have no united truth. It becomes a divided society and inevitably becomes more radicalized.
You think that protesters and objectors were coherent and united in the past. That's funny Steve, very funny.
Coherent of not people knew what they stood for and were united. There were core principles and values we all shared such as the traditional family, God, Christian values. Now its about the identity group you belong to, cancelling past culture, redefining it as oppressive, political correctness to the point that minorities rule.
We do. It's been there all along in the founding principles, etc. of the US. These haven't changed. What has changed is that certain sub-factions are trying to assert their religious opinions over those American principles of secular government. This seems to be driven by a modest deference to their positions that was granted in the past when they were the majority. The denial of this preference of a shrinking minority over the rest of us is making them angry.
The one big difference is that the foundering fathers of Western nations believed God was central to grounding these principles. That for a secular society to be ordered and stable they needed God. The idea was not to reject God from the equation as they knew God balanced things out from society getting out of hand and becoming chaotic.
Identity politics is as old as dirt. It goes way back before the West even existed.
Not in the way it does today. We can go back only recently and see the parties were not as extreme. Labor or democrat's have become much more radicalized to the Left and the Right and are abandoning those core principles and philosophies they once represented. They are often beholden to minority interests that dictate policy for the majority, hence identity politics and political correctness. Its not the principles now but the identity that dictates terms. Democracy has broken down as a result.
That is why we are seeing more and more people dissatisfied and disillusioned by politics today. In the past there was a clear sense of cultural identity. You knew what you stood for and who you were as a nation and culture. Now who knows its all a mess and this is affecting society economically, socially and morally.. This is the result of abandoning those core truths and principles we once held and which were grounded in God. Now they are grounded in identity, human made truths.
More concerning is this idea that todays current predicament has always existed. That is the ideology of Post Modern society that everything that happens happened before, its just a natural and normal part of life. That there is no truth to any moral matters or anything for that matter. A bit like climate change deniers.
