Obama, the postmodernist

Protagoras, the father of Relativism


I just came across a nice little piece by Jonah Goldberg of Liberal Fascism fame where he describes the dangers of Obama's post modernism. I like to call a post modernist a post toastie, by the way.

Here's a little:

Asked to define sin, Barack Obama replied that sin is "being out of alignment with my values." Statements such as this have caused many people to wonder whether Obama has a God complex or is hopelessly arrogant. For the record, sin isn't being out of alignment with your own values (if it were, Hannibal Lecter wouldn't be a sinner because his values hold that it's OK to eat people) nor is it being out of alignment with Obama's — unless he really is our Savior.

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"PoMos" hold that there is no such thing as capital-T "Truth." There are only lower-case "truths." Our traditional understandings of right and wrong, true and false, are really just ways for those Pernicious Pale Patriarchs to keep the Coalition of the Oppressed in their place. In the PoMo's telling, reality is "socially constructed." And so the PoMos seek to tear down everything that "privileges" the powerful over the powerless and to replace it with new truths more to their liking.

During a period of War against militant Islam, such weakness is dangerous to our Western culture. How can we have a "leader" who is afraid to choose right, wrong, good, bad, terrorist or freedom fighter? I hope he knows the difference between what it means to win or lose this War (life and death).

Leaders MUST rule through the binary system that post toasties hate. Sure we all agree there are multiple cultures, beliefs, systems, religions, etc. So we in some ways understand things in a relative way, but when it comes to your own borders, culture, etc. you live through objectivism for your own survival- just like EVERYONE else is allowed to do. That's the great irony of the post toastie relativism, they seek to allow all other cultures to fight for their own systems (even the most vile) but as soon as the West (US anti-illegal immigration policy for example) attempts to do the same, we are shunned. As if to deny we even have a culture. Islam isn't relativist! Allow them in, leave them alone, let them practice, which in turn has the potential to destroy the very culture that allowed relativism to exist in the first place. Poof, it's gone.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but some opinions are better than others.

Cultural suicide, what most of Europe is attempting, is worse than fighting and losing your war. You've already lost.

Here is the rest of Goldberg's short piece.

cross-posted @ www.genycon.blogspot.com