Relativism is shooting through every aspect of society to the extent that it's producing ludicrous results, ridiculous results but also insanely dangerous results. A case in point happened in the Live Free or Die State of New Hampshire as seen in the outcome of a beauty pageant.Competing in that contest was a male who is now a female. (Not too many months ago, that would have been a ridiculous sentence to write but this is now, that was then.)
The winner, in the opinion of the judges, signals the serious problem. The result signifies what relativism does to a culture: it causes the loss of categories. In such a society, all categories are gone--right, wrong, male female, good, evil, even the category of beauty or not beautiful. And that last word brings up a popular song of days gone by, a song of relativism called, "Everything is Beautiful in It's Own Way."
The Nazi concentration camps and crematoriums weren't beautiful. The starvation of his own people by Stalin showed us that communism isn't beautiful. The self-admitted blood lust of the Cuban thug Che Guevara wasn't beautiful. A comatose drug addict lying on a front porch in San Francisco is ugly. Abortion would also fit in the class of those things which aren't beautiful.
When the judges announced the winner, the losing girls acted as trained seals and, with smiling faces, applauded with gusto. Each one of the losers, after who knows how many months of preparation, were acting as if the final decision was normal. From everything I've read about the event, no parent, mother or father, no aunt or uncle, no brother or sister raised their voices against the charade. Everyone was acting as if the emperor was wearing clothes, to use the analogy of the fable. They were active participants in the farce.
There are those of you who were fortunate because of the genes you inherited regarding your appearance. Then there are the rest of us; not so fortunate. But, that's the way life is, and to pretend otherwise is a denial of reality and that's dangerous especially when it slides over into the denial of right and wrong.
Douglas Murray, a leading and perceptive critic of our relativistic culture, says that few have the courage to say, "No, this is wrong" or, "I will not listen to this." Or, "I will not participate in this." He points out that there will be a serious personal result from this, the person who doesn't speak up will hate himself later because he didn't say, "No."
"In the absence of intellectual opposition, these notions will gradually come to be absorbed into the culture. The uncontested absurdities of today are the accepted slogans of tomorrow. They come to be accepted by degrees, by precedent by implication, by erosion, by default, by dint of constant pressure on one side and constant retreat on the other--until the day when they are suddenly declared to the country's official ideology." (Ayn Rand)
We will leave it at that without saying more other than to say that a picture is worth a thousand words. You can judge for yourself by viewing the picture of the winner of the pageant as well as the losers by going to https://mwdentallab.org/transgender-brian-nguyen-wins-miss-greater-derry-2023-netizens-divide-over-models-beauty-pageant-winner/
The winner is in the center of the picture holding what appears to be the trophy.
The categories are gone. Absurdity has triumphed and with applause.
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