When objective truth and reality are no longer held by culture.

Publisher's note:  Terry Hestilow is a man I've known via social media for a number of years.  He is an accomplished man who served our nation with honor and is a retired Captain in the US Army.  Additionally, he is a former Chaplain, a father, grandfather, and all around great patriot who has a firm grasp on what is happening in our culture.  I am honored that he has allowed us to repost this very insightful perspective.

Terry Hestilow:  I’m confused.  The Left has declared that there is no “right” and no “wrong,” except when you don’t agree with their vivid imaginations; then you are wrong and should be thrown into jail.  Of course, education means nothing anymore if 1+1 can mean anything a person identifies it to equal!  If a teacher punishes a student with counting an answer “wrong” because they disagree with the student’s answer isn’t that an injustice?  After all, if biology, and DNA can be wrong, why not arithmetic?

And aren’t our courts unjust when they define some people as living human beings based upon “age and place of residence” (“pre-born” living in the “mother’s womb”), or based upon if the mother wants her child to live, and punish or praise those who kill them according to politics?  After all, if a doctor kills a pre-born child without being “wrong,” should other doctors be able to kill unwanted parents?  Is that “fair”?  Or is that “wrong”?

Young people need to start asking question.  If things like biology does not determine ”right” and “wrong” physical natural laws (“follow the science”), how can teachers count any answers you give to be wrong?  And if you believe, against all evidence, that you are entitled to a state university’s doctoral degree, how can you be denied?

I might suggest that such thinking is “wrong” on a fundamental epistemological level; but according to today’s lack of rationality any discussion of epistemology might cause me to fall into error and prosecution for calling a noun a verb, or some other word that has lost all rational meaning.

Time is running out for all of us.  If objective truth is nonexistent, and “right” and “wrong” is predicated only upon my imagination, feeling, and accepted confusion on objective reality, then “right and wrong, truth and falsity,” indeed objective reality itself is only an illusion and is only relevant to the particular individual.  If that is the case no one can ever be punished for their error or their truth; and, I might be wrong here, but no one believes any of that objective nonsense.  If you don’t believe me, just watch their reaction when you “misgender” them.  They will prosecute you quicker than you can say, “[G]ive me a break, man!”

Captain Terry M. Hestilow 

United States Army 

March 10, 2024