'THE SNAPPING OF THE AMERICAN MIND"

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Exclusive: Joseph Farah examines 'madness' spreading through U.S. cultural institutions

It was 1987 that a book came out that opened my eyes to the truth.

Just seven years earlier, I had voted for Jimmy Carter in his bid for re-election against Ronald Reagan.

I regretted it almost immediately – certainly on Inauguration day Jan. 20, 1981, when I saw Iran release hundreds of American hostages from the U.S. Embassy seized by radicals supported by the revolutionary Islamic government who feared what might befall them with the California cowboy in charge.

The book was called “The Closing of the American Mind,” by professor Allan Bloom. It was a bestseller, and the very first paragraph of the introduction told the story.

“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative. If this belief is put to the test, one can count on the students’ reaction: they will be uncomprehending. That anyone should regard the proposition as not self-evident astonishes them, as though he were calling into question 2+2=4.”

Bloom goes on to show how, regardless of the students’ background – rich or poor, future scientist or future businessman, whatever – “they are unified only in their relativism and in their allegiance to equality.”

Fast-forward almost three decades. Last month, there was an amazingly enlightening article in Atlantic Monthly “The Coddling of the American Mind, which dramatically shows how the poison of relativism – in reality, godlessness – and its fruit (as Bloom noted) of radical equality – has bloomed into a terrifying pathology on today’s campuses.

This month, a new book is released by David Kupelian, WND’s managing editor for the last 16 years and the bestselling author of “The Marketing of Evil” and “How Evil Works.”  It’s called “The Snapping of the American Mind: Healing a Nation Broken by a Lawless Government and Godless Culture,” which reveals the predictable result of radical relativism one generation later: Truth is relative, morality is relative, good and evil are relative, sanity is relative – and evil ends up ascendant, because that’s what always happens when man rejects God.

Twenty-eight years separate Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” and Kupelian’s “The Snapping of the American Mind,” but it might as well have been an eternity in the changing moral, spiritual and intellectual worldview of America.

Bloom told us about what post-modernism had wrought.

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It shocked a generation, which had lost track of how their world was changing thanks to deconstructionist brainwashing in universities.

Likewise, Kupelian chronicles, in vivid detail and with acute sobriety and discernment, the effects of decades of deconstructionism that rejects even the notion that history can be explained through a record of objective facts. Even language, the code we use to communicate with, is torn asunder to make it nearly impossible for meaningful communication to take place between those who still believe in objective truth and those who deny there are any absolutes.

The American mind is no longer just closed, explains Kupelian. Increasingly, it has snapped.

Today, a kind of madness rules the academy. And its effects spread pervasively through every other cultural institution like a viral mental illness.

The deconstructionist insanity embraces moral and intellectual chaos that denies even the commonalities in the standard language we use for the most basic form of communication.

Truth? There is no truth. Absolutes? There are no absolutes. Language? It’s just a cultural creation, a social construct that limits our ability to reason.

The result? The elimination of the use of perfectly good and important words.

Does all of this bring about a new openness and freeness in society?

Hardly. What it spawns is a new tyrannical, quasi-religious neo-puritanism and a Stalinist-style, Orwellian authoritarianism. In the name of “diversity” and “tolerance,” it shuts down debate and meaningful dialogue – intentionally and purposely.

It’s evil. And it’s driving America mad.

If you want to understand what’s really going on in our world as its foundations crumble, read David Kupelian’s “The Snapping of the American Mind.”

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/from-the-closing-of-the-american-mind-to/#zhWvlEHmUFuMzuzh.99

My comments: This "Snapping" of the American mind is Preparation for the Coming Antichrist and his Rule. First God and His Absolutes had to be Abandoned, and the Feeble mind of man Rule with all of his RELATIVISM.