Private feelings are our form of truth today, a kind of ultimate self-absorption—understandable because there are no universal patterns. Yet, in expressing private feelings, people really think they’ve done something great. We see this on the talk shows. We realize those people have never read, studied, prayed, or listened to anybody except their own tyrannical feelings. Yet they think they have a right for their uninformed opinions on the welfare system or religion or nuclear warfare to be taken seriously!
