A Culture Mesmerised By It's Own Rhetoric

Trans women are women

Diversity is our strength

Inclusivity is a core value

Renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy

Death with dignity

We are on a journey of reconciliation

Reproductive rights are human rights

Sustainable development goals

Chest feeders, people with periods, birthers are inclusive terms

Global boiling

I could go on and on. Our political and cultural elites certainly do. Their speeches are littered with meaningless, but high-minded phrases.

Speech writing for political and corporate leaders now requires little more than finding a few words with which to connect vacuous cliches together.

We are a culture enchanted by our own righteous rhetoric. Our words have taken on a hypnotic power. We chant them over and over as if doing so somehow makes them true and bends reality to their unreality.

So mesmerised are we by our pithy, pious slogans that we obsessively push self-destructive, degenerate and spiritual vapid ideas as if they were the peak of human enlightenment.

In 2000 years, the Apostle Paul’s words “professing to be wise they became fools” have never been more apt.