For the liberal relativist, social situations are a tyranny

For the liberal relativist, social situations are a tyranny.

Social situations are a venue for building your platform and for pontificating.

 Off hand comments made in social situations are what is expected to shape your world view, not reading primary sources, not investingating the accuracy of news stories or rumors.

 The modern liberal is conditioned to make conclusions based upon impression and feeling.

Those impressions and feelings are dictated through who is more powerful socially, who is more dominant in a social setting.

 This dominance can take the form of people actually behaving in pleasantly, stroking you to make you feel heard and then coming in with the trump argument that wins you over due to their charm or due to their dominance in a social situation.

 When I met the Chassidic Rabbi in Burlington Vermont, all those years ago,  he brought me a piece of paper and a magic marker and asked, "could you please write a sign for me, my English isn't so good."

In a split second I realized - this guy cannot manipulate me. He had spoken Yiddish at home, Arabic on the streets of Morocco, and gone to Brooklyn to yeshiva at the are of 13.

English was his third language, but it was more than that, he spoke straight, with no packaging or manipulation.

On that Sabbath afternoon, he pulled out a five books of Moses and started learning with a visitor. The question came up, how could Jacob our forefather ask for a sign from God, was not that a sign of lack of faith?

 The Rabbi said, "Jacob was a tzaddik (saint) so it  must have been okay."

The visitor said, "you can't say that, him being a tzadik makes the question okay? You can't say that."

The rabbi furrowed his brow and stroked his beard in thought.

He was not trying to outsmart anyone, get them to be on his team or vote for his party or get someone to be his activist.

He was just sharing greater truths that were infinitely larger than him. and that made him act kindly in an interpersonal manner - unhlike the liberals I had grown up with.

When your world view is shaped by off handed comments made in social situations, nothing is really true, nothing is likewise false, so accuracy is less important than your delivery and ability to impress.

"Liberals have it easy, follow liberal ideology no matter how much blood is spilled" - paraphrase from the book Holy Days.

Better to be connected to higher truths than ideologically possessed and pushing an agenda, an agenda that may not even be so good for you.