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

What is truth? The traditional answer is that truth is a correspondence between what’s thought or said and a reality that exists independently of what’s thought or said.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
More to the point, it is a philosophical error—specifically, Bishop Berkeley’s error—to think that real things, such as the sexual bifurcation of species, cease to exist if we don’t think about them.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
How does the corrosive nonsense of postmodernism serve the sociopolitical interests of the Woke? It complements their subjectivism. With its denial that our knowledge extends beyond our perceptions, subjectivism levels the evidentiary playing field; it diminishes the status of empirically gathered data and elevates the status of individual impressi
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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.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Or are we now to imagine that black people are a master race: If they come up short, that’s racism at work, yet if they excel, that’s not racism but merely the natural order of things?
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Thus, the next time a humanities or social science professor steps to a podium and begins to blather about how uncertainty is a feature of the universe, and thus subjectivism is the way of all sophisticates, you may want to ask him if that means Planck’s constant isn’t constant.
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
Regardless of where you come down on the question, at least recognize what’s going on: transgendered people claim the right to substitute their gender identity for their sexual classification. That claim is their sociopolitical alpha and omega, their will to power. Gender identity must, upon demand, override sexual classification. Subjective, unver
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ask yourself this: In the last several millennia of recorded human endeavor, can you name one writer, one artist, one thinker, one remotely interesting, original, or memorable person who, as a young adult, wanted to know less about the world?
Mark Goldblatt • I Feel, Therefore I Am: The Triumph of Woke Subjectivism
If you are determined to ignore the referential quality of words as well as the methodologies of deductive and inductive logic, then you can spout any nonsense you want, at least until a louder voice comes along to drown you out.