The British journalist Melanie Phillips (who has written for The Guardian and The Times, among others) explains clearly how Western societies came to accept lies as truth. Following the experience of totalitarian structures in the 20th century, society rejected any external authority on principle. As a result, the hierarchy among opinions, values, worldviews and cultures also disappeared. Nothing could be better or worse than anything else. No lifestyle, no family background, no national culture, no religion. Anyone who failed to understand this was a racist. As a result, a liberal society could no longer claim to be better than an unfree society. The only thing that mattered was what the individual person felt. Their feelings were more important than any facts, because they used them to create their own reality. With that, the idea of an objective truth was done away with.
I agree with this, but I don't agree that it started with the Nazis. Nazism was a reaction to what was going on in Russia, which was based on the revolutionary philosophy of Karl Marx, which resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution lead by Vladimir Lennon in 1917. The Bolsheviks killed tens of millions before Hitler ever came to power. Before that, this idea was put forward in 1789 during the French Revolution, which was basically a revolt against the authoritarianism of the Church and the King. We all saw where that went during the Summer Olympics. There were dictatorships in Italy under Mussolini and in Spain under Franco at the same time as Hitler in Germany. It's kind of dumb to continually attribute everything bad in the world to Hitler and the Nazis, whose total demonization is, at least in part, due to war and Jewish propaganda. Let's not forget that the current occupants in Rome, posing as the Catholic Church, firmly advocate for relativism and situation ethics (under the guise of a false ecumenism) which has had a huge influence in the loss of objective truth and the loss of the tenets of the true Catholic Church. Remember "all religions are paths to God...don't ever say my God is better than your God." That fake organization is lead by a man who got down on his knees before a pagan idol and still thinks its okay to pretend that he is the head of the Mystical Body of Christ. And apparently people who believe themselves to be Catholics are okay with that.
Very thoughtful comment. Yes when concocting a boogiemen the nazis always turn up! We had that drummed into our pea brains since a very young age!