The Collapse of Trust

 I'm watching the Daily Wire What Is A Woman? documentary on Twitter while it's available for free (ending soon). If you see this post in time, you may still be able to watch it. 

I wasn't going to at first. I'll be the first to admit I'm not a huge Matt Walsh fan, but he did a really good job with this piece. He was respectful and not inflammatory, and the production was well done. Just asking fundamental questions (ie, the title of the documentary) which people seem to have trouble answering. Because like Pilate, it comes back to the issue: What Is Truth? What is reality? Is there an objective reality? Objective truth? 

Something weird is going on in Western civ. I especially liked the part when he flew to Kenya to visit an African tribe. They laughed and laughed at the bizarre questions  "Can a man become a woman, or a woman become a man?" as if it were a mistranslation, and answered his question of What Is A Woman? very matter-of-factly with simple common sense.

I think COVID really blew the floor out of the house.  We are all being institutionally lied to, and you don't have to be a "conspiracy theorist" to believe that. Not just COVID though. From the AMA to the APA to the NCAA to the U.S. of A., it is clear we cannot and should not blindly trust institutions that should be in the service of the common good. If you don't have common sense, how can you know what the common good is?

There are good agents in every field, people who want to tell the Emperor he is naked. But they get smothered and drowned out. I think Matt Walsh, given his temperament, is telling him plainly--not in a hysterical manner, but calmly and rationally. Of course all documentaries are slanted, but nothing is neutral today anyway.

In some ways, this is nothing new. But it just seems to be accelerating. 

When we get in a car, we trust other drivers on the road to have the competency to be behind the wheel. We can be as careful as we can be, and yet still be broadsided by a distracted or drunk driver; our lives, for better or worse, are in the hands of others. 

If we can't trust the government, our therapist, our doctors, the pharmaceutical industry, our institutions of higher education--or if that trust has been compromised with even just little turds in the carboy--then that is a foreboding sign for our society as a whole (as you'll get a taste of, if you watch Matt's documentary)

Like abortion, one can make oppositional claims against abortion and trans ideology without appeal to religious reasoning, though the Natural Law, philosophy, and theology can inform that truth. Christians do not (or should not) oppose trans ideology not because of hate or being bigoted or fear, but because we must tell the truth. That truth comes with a cost, as it always does for those who choose not to live by lies.