CHRISTOPHER ROACH WRITES HERE:

One interesting phenomenon of our times is that the old-fashioned view that one may act on the basis of sincere belief has been hammered out of existence. We don’t even say, “I think” or “I believe” anymore. It’s “I feel.”

… Ideas don’t make a whole hell of a lot of sense in this world, because this world is defined by an all encompassing meta-idea that says every alleged idea is the mere epiphenomenon of some material cause: thanatos, id, primitive group identity, or the residue of an abusive childhood. Real ideas don’t exist as ideas to such people, and thus they can’t imagine they really exist for others…

For the liberal materialist, to acknowledge that anyone is sincerely motivated by ideas would expose the poverty of his own worldview.

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