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Absolute Truth

The informality of today has substantially inverted the trend that was the earlier 50’s and 60’s. Not only was a medium altered, but also an idea birthed into new society. The new idea is that of a passive ebb tide generation. Today, classrooms around the modern western world, young people are taught tolerance, openness to alternative perspectives, to value themselves and their own views and to accept and revel in diversity. All this is praiseworthy, but it carries with it a very real danger, which seems clearly at work within society. There is a radical relativism amongst many young people who have in some cases come to see truth as a dirty word. This radical relativism is no accident. The intellectual origins are the result...

Posted by: Gabrielle Gooch

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