Once a unifying Logos or belief in a reason outside ourselves is abandoned, all we have left are feelings and desires. If we cannot let the world or our place and meaning in the world be defined by the Logos, then we will define it entirely within the context of our own desire.
And this is where we get the modern and postmodern foundations for reality – not in a reality that exists without us, but in a reality that is defined by what I feel and desire. So we no longer speak of ourselves and human beings with sexual desires to be brought into accordance with who we really, objectively are. We are not human beings with sexual desires; instead, we are straight or we are gay or we are bisexual. Something we feel strongly, something we desire, has become the very definition of our existence.
Because we all now agree that this is how reality is defined, any argument can be dismissed or any criticism deflected with a very simple combination of words: “You don’t even know me.”
