J. Budziszewski explains how to confront the Pandemic of Lunacy in Touchstone.
The craziness of the culture has become so obvious that, finally, everyone gets it. We don’t need to go into the details of tampon dispensers in boys’ bathrooms.
And yet I don’t think most of us realize just how far the lunacy has gone. Consider the social media remark, “Math is actually not universal. Treating it as such upholds white supremacy.” It’s easy to laugh, but the author of the tweet is a math teacher, and this sort of thing is actually taught in some public schools. Or consider the tweet: “2+2 in #Theology can make 5. Because it has to do with #God and real #life of #people.” This was posted by theologian and Pope Francis confidant Antonio Spadaro, who was defending certain statements against critics who had pointed out that they contradicted the moral doctrine of the Catholic Church.
We are told that basic right and wrong are vague, equivocal, and different for everyone. That sometimes we just have to do the wrong thing. That good character is unnecessary for well-being—or even that there is no such thing as good character, that everyone merely responds to the incentives presented to him.
And on and on and on.
