Ben Shapiro

temporal principles.

But the question of whether the church ought to pursue truth has sort of been supplanted by the idea that churches ought to do politics.

And again, I don't believe that my rabbi shouldn't sign into politics when it's relevant.

But the idea that churches have basically become, in many instances, sort of progressive bastions where people go to eat pizza and play guitar rather than unite with some internal value, that is why people don't go to church anymore.

Why go to church?

You can go to a ball game.

There's no reason.

The scientific establishment moved from evidence to narrative, from truth to narrative.

We saw that most obviously during COVID.

And the result of that was not a sort of moderate critique of science.

The result for an enormous number of people was to completely discard science in favor of woo-woo nonsense that has zero evidence to back it.

Again, the slide from truth to narrative is almost invariably followed by a slide from narrative to conspiracism or nonsense.

You can see that in the world of science very, very clearly.

We were told a lot of lies about, for example, the efficacy of masks or the ability of vaccines to prevent transmission of the COVID virus.

And the backlash to that, that was all in pursuit of a narrative.

And the backlash to that was, what if we don't do vaccines ever again?

People just won't take vaccines.

Vaccines must be bad.

And instead, we're going to rely on whatever we heard on some third-rate podcast from a person who doesn't know a kidney from a spleen.

And then obviously when it comes to academia, this is clearly true.