Michael Knowles

And after that madness had passed, you saw a huge tick up, specifically in liturgical religion.

And then the other reason is that subjectivism is exhausted.

We've been quoting a lot of popes today.

Pope Benedict XVI talked about the poison of subjectivism, this tyranny of subjectivism that had overtaken the West.

where we don't really know if anything's true or false.

And it doesn't just go back to the 1960s.

It goes back much earlier.

Really, it goes back to Descartes, Rene Descartes, who said, I think therefore I am.

And what he concluded was that the only thing that we can really know for certain is that we think things.

In other words, the only certain knowledge that we have is what's banging around in our own head that we don't necessarily know.

interact with reality as such.

That was a major break from the scholastics of the Middle Ages, from antiquity.

And it, in my view, marked the beginning of the end of a stable civilization.

So that trend has been building for hundreds and hundreds of years.

I think that reached a tipping point also really with the transgender craze, where you say, I can't even know what my sex is.

You can't know what anyone's sex is.

We can't know anything at all.

It tends toward almost a philosophical solipsism.

And at that point, people said, nah, you know what?

I'm pretty sure there is truth.