9/20/2023

Tyranny of Hypersubjectivism

Christianity itself is beset by the third existential crisis in its history, a contemporary crisis over the nature of humanity itself, a crisis manifest on the same global scale as the Church herself. More than ever, the question for our times is “What is man?” For Christians, it’s a crisis over the concept of creation, over Genesis itself. Is man created in God’s image? Or are we our own creators? The hypersubjectivism of postmodern culture makes each man or woman, in principle, the unmoved mover of his or her own existence. -from the FirstThings review of a book that offers a sprawling analysis of How We Got Here

...not unlike the Tyranny of Moral Relativism, as reflected in what the author describes as the replacement of the Intellectual with the Influencer. I have also noticed it in the dependence of younger and younger students on classroom content being portrayed visually rather than textually. We are forming an illiterate society without the ability to interact rationally or critically with written, objective truth. 

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