Kanye believe it

Kanye West demonstrates the state of truth in our civilisation. He believes that because it feels true to him that blacks are being persecuted it is true. I heard Bonnie Greer on Radio 4's 'Any Questions' yesterday saying that Whitey needed to realise how viscerally black people felt the truth of persecution in what they saw in New Orleans on their TVs. Now Kanye's just a singer trying to make a lot of money. What's appalling is how intellectuals like Bonnie get behind that sentiment. Let me explain it again, Bonnie. It's true if it's true; feeling's got nothing to do with it. But this has been going on for a long time -- a friend once explained to me he'd been taught that sexual harassment had happened if a woman felt it had. Who can defend themselves against the vindictive or the paranoid under this kind of politically correct nonsense? Funny too that those who peddle such muddleheaded garbage will generally be the first down the throats of the religious for valuing their spiritual experiences. Our civilisation rests on the existence of a single, external truth. The world has one way that it is. Facts are accessible to reasoned investigation. Forgetting that delivers us into the hands of demagogues -- and then real persecution begins. The made-up kind, we can live with.