The Battle for Truth: A Candid Encounter with Gen Z’s Ideological Abyss

I just had a remarkable experience that was both emotionally challenging and also eye-opening. I think I was able to really see for the first time what we are up to in our society, and, without jumping to conclusions right away, I do think, as westerners, we are in deep, big trouble.

I decided to write right away while the memory was still fresh and vivid.

This just happened 30 minutes ago.

Let me explain. It was still early in the morning here in Ubud, Bali. I had just come back from my morning walk and decided to sit around the pool at the table to do my morning journal and edit some photos I was lucky enough to capture the day before.

I actually love them, and I will use them as part of this story to emphasize my points.

There was a young Swedish blonde girl sitting in the kitchen.

I had already talked to her briefly the day before, and I am going to call her Emma for the sake of this article, since it sounds Swedish to me.

Emma is 22 years old and happens to be attractive as well.

She looked at me and told me straight out that she was feeling a little angry. She seemed a little upset without showing it too much.

I listened, trying to understand why, and she explained that she was still holding a grudge with her parents because years ago they had put her in a school she felt she didn´t belong to, and although she had already graduated from that school, she was still angry with her parents.

I thought to myself, Okay, well, that doesn’t seem to be a big problem, but I recommended a book to her that had helped me a lot to let go of negativity and destructive emotions like anger.

The book I was referring to was Letting Go by David R. Hawkins

Astra Florian?—?Roman L Binder

Until I explained to her one of the core messages from that book, which is about the levels of consciousness and how they relate to the emotional states we find ourselves in most of the time, the conversation had been light and friendly.

I went on to discuss what I thought was one of Dr. Hawkins’ most astounding findings.

That, to me, was the scientific approach he took and the numerical values he was able to assign to various emotional states, such as anger.

A reflection on objective beauty?—?Roman L Binder

The fact that there is a duality of life, with apathy being closest to death, with a frequency as low as 20, and illumination being as close to God as we can get

In other words, he was able to measure and therefore distinguish between objective truth and falsehood using kinesiology

I explained that the threshold at which negative energy or consciousness levels shift from negative to positive is 200, that the corresponding emotional state is courage, and that anything below that is life-draining negative energy, including anger.

I argued that anger can be helpful at times since it is way more energetic than, for example, guilt or apathy.

So we can use it to transition from these extremely low vibrancy states to courage or acceptance, but the point is that we don’t want to stay in anger because anger erodes you from within and is, of course, a fundamentally negative emotion and state of consciousness.

This was the point where the whole conversation unraveled.

Her response to that was that she disagreed and that, in “her” truth, that wasn’t ´t the case. Emma said that there was no consensus about that and that her personal feelings constituted a different truth.

My first reaction was, Okay, that’s fine.

You can say that, but do you believe in objective truth, or do you believe that truth can be whatever anyone wants it to be?

She replied that, yes, when it comes to how tall the chair is and what color the book is, but other than that, no.

This is where she got really upset and angry and accused me of wanting to impose my truth on her, which then led me to ask her,

“Do you think murder is bad?”

And she stated that one could not objectively say that murder was wrong.

At this point, I had to control myself and restrain myself from getting angry as well.

I pointed out that, in fact, the concept of “my truth and your truth” is completely made up and bogus.

There is only “the truth.”

There are universal laws the world abides by, which include, of course, physics but also spiritual and moral truths.

That was when it struck me.

I was actually witnessing in real time the existential problem we have put our society in.

In full display.

She was the perfect specimen of everything that has gone wrong with Gen Z

She got even more offended when I made her aware that maybe at 22 she was lacking a bit of insight and experience and that reading this book or books in general about spirituality could potentially help her to understand.

Also, generally speaking, it was good advice to read something before having an opinion.

Now, she was furious and visibly shaking.

I kept my cool and diverted my attention to Lightroom, where I was editing my photos. I finished one, turned it around to her, and said,

Look, this is objectively beautiful

Chaos and Beauty?—?Roman L Binder

The conclusion is that this generation of Gen Z stands for total moral relativism, a breakdown of values, and objective truth.

I can’t really prove it right now, but my gut feeling is that she is not an outlier; as a graduated student, she is now the norm.

I would argue that we produced a generation of idiots who graduated from university 100 times dumber than they were when they entered.

Indoctrinated and devoid of any moral compass.

We are dealing with an ideology that does not recognize truth as the cornerstone of what has been known as eternal principles for as long as mankind has existed.

We are talking about an ideology that uses “feelings” to determine moral values and to discern between right and wrong.

This is the generation that sits in the trust and safety departments of big companies to decide who can stay and who cannot, and it is also the type of people who vote on your ability to express yourself on social media at the next green party conference.

I think we are in big trouble in the west.

We have allowed for utter stupidity to become mainstream and acceptable.

I am aware that this girl and this story just happen to be anecdotes, but to me they are not, because before I had only seen this on the internet.

To me, this was the first time I experienced the full weight of this ideology taking over young minds.

Nevertheless, I am grateful for the experience since it turned out to be a valuable lesson in what anti-vision looks like.

Remember that creating your vision for a happy life also includes awareness of your anti-vision.

To know exactly what we don’t want.

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