Brian Stern
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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The world's great faiths are not suddenly agreeing on every doctrine.
They're doing something more haunting than that.
They are all staring at the same storm, each from a different tower, each from a different text, each with a different vocabulary, but they're all looking at the horizon and saying in one form or another, this may not be ordinary.
civilizations don't merely collapse from bad economics or failed diplomacy.
Sometimes they do.
They collapse when they lose any sense that eternity has a claim on them.
When nothing is sacred and everything becomes negotiable.
And we have been here in the last 25 years.
Marriage is negotiable.
Truth is negotiable.
Who's truth?
What truth?
Your truth.
Children become negotiable.
They're not your children.
They belong to somebody else, the school, the state.
We can do whatever we want because they're not underage, really.
We can adjust their body.
How do you know what sex is?
Justice is negotiable.