So many people tell me they’re crying for Charlie Kirk without having known that much about him, nor necessarily agreeing with him on everything. Why is that, they ask? Exactly why one cries is ultimately personal. But I do think the following: Charlie Kirk represents youth, but also reason. He did something absolutely nobody else has been doing in today’s culture, least of all on college campuses: he invited young students into rational debate. Remember, the vast majority of these students have been only exposed to one point-of-view their entire lives: progressivism, which is based one-hundred percent on feelings, not rational thought.
Reason is a beautiful thing, and it’s really our only tool of survival; imagine survival for five minutes on a desert island, or after a natural disaster, without reason. Reason is thought. Feelings will not do any of this survival and flourishing for us. Civilization cannot go on five more months without reason– if not your reason, someone’s reason.
I believe most people sense the truth of these statements. Most people are starved for reason without knowing it. Charlie Kirk’s assassination, because he stood literally all by himself against the trends of militant emotionality and deliberate irrationality suffocating what all our psyches require in this whack job of a culture today, seems like the death not just of one man, but of something even more spectacular we have yet to truly name. Charlie Kirk represents the ideal that should be a cultural norm, instead of his being one of its lone examples.