Charlie Kirk and a Surprising Few Minutes on Truth
The pursuit of Truth requires that Truth be posited. searched for and discovered. A liberal education, in the way scholars of the last century understood it, and which I received, demonstrates to pupils the intellectual means by which one devotes a life dedicated to the pursuit of Truth. There are other means to Truth that entirely bypass the intellect: Revelation, for example.
Truth, to my great surprise, was the subject of a striking video that Charlie Kirk published today. Mr. Kirk, author of The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth, passed up college to develop, instead, a massive, influential political action network.
(Right-click the link above and spawn the video in a background tab.)
I can not think of another program since the 1970s, watched by many millions of viewers, such as William F. Buckley’s Firing Line, which has ever touched upon the principle of Truth and the intellectual methods by which one discovers it. Bravo, Charlie Kirk!
The irony is that the colleges of the West dispensed with Truth generations ago; now, its denizens wallow in all manner of pestilential ideation. But a man who skipped college has brought it to the fore.
I would only supplement the brief discussion to comment that absolute truth, to which the discussants refer, is Truth, because Truth is always unopposed. The dyadic human brain finds it hard to grasp an unopposed principle, since Left can not be without Right, nor Up without Down.
Relativistic truth, also mentioned, is not Truth, but rather that which seems to strike one as being in some way right situationally or temporarily or personally.
The tautological relativism of those who aver that there is no Truth, or just your truth and my truth, as Sir Roger Scruton was wont to say, implies that they are asking you to disbelieve them.
