Had a very lively and insightful conversation with a conservative last night. His insight: it's counterproductive to say the word "objective truth" in an argument any longer. It only has the effect of saying "but I really mean it!" since, in his view, liberals are all about relativism. I wouldn't disagree.
Why is this important? For conservatives to recover their movement, which had been based so much on proving the consistency of their positions with objective reality, the path forward was to tell more stories that illustrated objective truth within the more colorful lives of the subjective people all around us. Christ, he said, after all, taught in parables, not debates.
Something to this, definitely.
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