I've become increasingly certain that the corruption in society comes from the belief that the notions that generally keep society from becoming corrupt are thought false. On an epistemological, ontological, or even ontic level, if someone believes that ultimately the only real meaning to their words is the effect that they have on the social dynamics of the group, the game's simply over. If one side on a football game is trying a new scoring strategy, and the other believes that the game is simply the cover for the forcible acquisition of this bit of turf from the political control of the host city, the belief that the game isn't actually occurring becomes a true claim. Beyond simply clapping for Tinkerbell, the position of conceptual realism, that there are mind-independent aspects of distinctly human experience that justify standing against the collective order, requires that the moral priority of a claim isn't subject to critique. "Here I stand, though I can do not this." Quixotic, but necessary.
