I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism

To summarize: The realist says that we can know the world beyond our perceptions, and that truth consists of thinking and saying things that correspond with the state of that world. The idealist says that our perceptions are the only things we truly know, and therefore that truth cannot be a correspondence. That’s the traditional debate between rea

Sexual classification is not something you get to decide, as desperately as you may wish it were. There is no natural right to overrule reality. You are what you are. Nothing more and nothing less.

Intellectually, however, people who attempt to shut down ideas have thrown in their lot with fanaticism.

The surest sign of a decadent culture isn’t its readiness to license varieties of personal abuse and degradation, or even its elevation of immediate pleasure over long-term sobriety. The surest sign of cultural decadence is a readiness to reject as hateful what is demonstrably true.

Contradictory propositions do not merely go against one another. They unsay one another. They cancel one another out. The only logical way to read a writer who rejects the law of noncontradiction, who freely and openly contradicts himself, is mentally to insert the words, “or not” after each of his sentences.

Let me tell you the many ways you are oppressed so that you may be a river to the unwashed masses.

Truth, I reiterate, is a correspondence between what you think and a reality that exists independently from what you think. You arrive at truth by adjusting what you think to reality, not by expecting reality to adjust to what you think.

Notice, however, that Einstein isn’t arguing for the plurality of truth. Rather, he is saying that from any specific position, there will still be one and only one true measurement of the motion of an object, and that that one true measurement is calculable and in no sense open to negotiation.

Lia Thomas, when he swam for the men’s team at Penn during the 2018–19 season, was ranked 65th nationally in the 500-freestyle.117 Now, competing as a woman against women, he’s blowing away Olympic medalists.