Our culture has a despotic ruler that is unwilling to submit to any of the firm laws of faith or reason. He has been allowed free run by virtually everyone, and not only has not been tamed, but has been deemed untamable by almost everyone. We have submitted to his whims without critique or question, and it is destroying us.

The untamable ruler is our feelings or more technically, our emotions.

In a culture where the inconsistent philosophy of post-modernism rules, feelings become the only dependable sort of reality. Post-modernism teaches that there is no such thing as truth, truth is relative, or if there is such thing as truth, it is unknowable with certainty. In that context, our feelings rule. After all, I might not be able to trust what I think, but I do know how I feel in the moment. Therefore, we let our feelings rule our reality, and we make that surrender to our own destruction. …

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