America’s radiating college-cheating scandal – wealthy parents allegedly bribed athletic coaches to admit their unathletic kids to elite institutions – is best understood as a symptom of a civilisation that no longer believes in the possibility of truth.
We in the West have oodles of facts, things we can learn with our senses and measure with our scientific instruments. But we reject truth – transcendent claims about the meaning and purpose of life. If we approach truth at all, we do so with hammers in hand, determined to “deconstruct” and “interrogate” it.
