Why all trutherism must be true!

Via Ed Driscoll, I loved this very insightful remark from  a review of Among the Truthers: A Journey Through America’s Growing Conspiracist Underground:

Conspiracy theories provide what has always been demanded in a secular age, “a cosmic explanation for evil,” and this also has taken place in today’s postmodernist intellectual environment in which, as Kay puts it, “thanks to the rise of identity politics, it is imagined that words — and even facts — have no meaning independent of the emotional effect they produce upon their audience. Everyone feels entitled to their own private reality.”

Hey, if you want to believe that philosophy was stolen (along with the Pyramids) from black Africans by the white man, that Jewish doctors enjoy injecting AIDS infected blood into black babies, that eating tofu will make you gay, that totally blanked out people with the mental age of two can actually learn to write sophisticated poetry by means of “facilitative communication,” that the moon landing was a hoax, or even that the CIA invented dinosaurs to discourage time travel, then these things are your truths, and they are just as true as anyone else’s truths!

Might as well make up words and call it English (sorry, “language arts”), or make up math and call it math. Don’t laugh. Today that’s called “education.”

When all truths are equal, everything becomes true.

(The idea that there really is truth is actually just another big conspiracy…..)

Have fun!

No wonder trutherism is a growth industry.

UPDATE: Frank J. has thrown cold water on many truths:

No Living Person Is Hitler, and the World Isn’t Ending

How utterly unfair!