Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s blog, Standing on My Head -- new to me -- is a find: wise, deep and funny. In “Stupidity and Tyranny,” recently posted and headlined by Winfield Myers, he cautions that the ideological ascendancy of philosophical relativism is leading this nation to tyranny. Myers all too accurately posits what this trend -- specifically produced by the education system -- has wrought:
the election of Obama–an empty, handsome suit who promised the moon–was possible largely because of the support of young people who, though intelligent, are mal-educated and spiritually malformed. Schooled to deny the possibility of discovering Truth (for how can one discover what does not exist?), they are suckers for slick politicians whose appeal rests largely on their messianic charisma.
And there we are once again and forever -- education -- the primary battlefield.
