Postmodernism Relativism Breeds Bullies & Conflict | National Review"When we knock down truth, we get a free-for-all where bullies reign supreme.
When Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind in 1987, he described an American academy awash in postmodern relativism.
Universities, rather than pushing students to find the truth, were inculcating the moral virtue of “openness,” such that the only belief that united anyone was that truth is relative.
“What right,” Bloom described students perpetually asking, “do I or anyone else have to say one opinion is better than the others?”
...What fruits did the relativist approach bear?
Certainly not what most commentators anticipated..."
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