The West’s useful idiots
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/the-wests-useful-idiots
In the West, the collective solipsism of the campus has spread throughout much of the culture. Any notion of objective reality is dismissed as a reactionary prejudice and facts regarded as malleable social constructions. But if you have no idea of truth, you have no use for doubt or free enquiry. Relativism and repression go together. Truth is what you and people like you believe, and can compel others to accept.
https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/04/the-wests-useful-idiots
In the West, the collective solipsism of the campus has spread throughout much of the culture. Any notion of objective reality is dismissed as a reactionary prejudice and facts regarded as malleable social constructions. But if you have no idea of truth, you have no use for doubt or free enquiry. Relativism and repression go together. Truth is what you and people like you believe, and can compel others to accept.