Ben Shapiro

And now they're rooted in power.

And in the world of truth, power is narrative.

And so, for example, if you look at how the media covers stories, the media is no longer interested predominantly in facts and evidence.

Instead, the media are interested in what are the narratives, how do we exercise power, and then how do we mobilize some small number of facts and evidence, or maybe not even facts and evidence, in order to support that narrative.

It's all reverse engineering of the factual reporting of the evidence that is presented.

And the most egregious form of this, of course, in the social media sphere is when you move from narrative to outright conspiracy theory, where you just jettison the evidence entirely and you just go with whatever is the purest form of narrative that gets you where you need to go.

That's how you get to the idea, for example, that Erica Kirk must have been involved in the murder of her husband.

There's no evidence of this.

It is factually unbased.

It is insane.

But there are an enormous number of people who believe it because, for some other narrative reason, they wish for it to be true.

There's some manipulation of the American system by malign foreign powers.

Or the entire institution of TPUSA has been perverted from the inside.

If you have a narrative in your head, and evidence and fact no longer matter to you,

then you can push any narrative using any conspiracy theory that you want.

Churches used to be truth-making institutions.

Spiritual truths, like baseline morality.

The whole purpose of a church, the whole purpose of any religion, is to present eternal truths that stand the test of time.

Now, of course, all churches, all synagogues, are going to stick and move with the application of those morals.

There can be lots of arguments, and there always are, on the application of eternal morals to