A Time of Relativism

A soul living in our time would probably look more like a vortex--- spinning uncontrollably, its axis shifting depending on the weight or force applied on its cone or cylinder, whichever way you see its dimensions as a whole. The factors behind such adapted shape cannot ever be assigned with absolute, empirical, numerical values, as it relates to the soul, that can be calculated using the same way astrophysicists calculate vortices and wormholes in space. No, because the soul is a stretchable fabric, or a gelatinous substance taking on its container, or at the most, a spinning, dark, nothingness produced by little micromachines in your brain called neurons. This is essentially relativism.
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A friend, in one of our enlightening conversations, said to me we live in a time of relativism, but he had some reservations, which made me think about the reason behind these reservations. Relativism posits that truth is not absolute: one truth that applies for one individual may not be applicable for another. Now as men of science this makes sense at first glance. In many therapeutic studies in drug regimens or clinical intervention, or I otherwise call an euphemistic term on turning groups of people into lab rats(a necessary evil actually, for sponsoring drug companies to earn their income), there are certain drugs or procedure that may provide treatment to a majority of people but may not treat the overall population. That's why we say “it showed significant difference in providing treatment to” so and so--- which only means this drug is true for most but not for all.

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Relativism may be reasonable and logical, but the assumption of truth as a flexible matter is somewhat non-appealing, troubling even. Eventually, science will provide all the answers to all the questions man's existence anchored on since the beginning of his newfound self-awareness; and truth will be a simplified process of absolutism without any degress of doubt provided by palpable and reproducible proof: A True or False and a Yes or No--- Why are we here? Is there meaning to our existence? Is there God?

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The point is, even if I try not to bother myself with one, there are answers out there to questions we ask for ourselves, we just don't know it yet; either due to lack of method or lack of questions. Truth is independent of man, but it is inherent in him to know it and search for it. And truth, is always absolute once simplified, stripped of all its distracting excesses. These points basically makes Relativism into a syllogistic fallacy. No, far from it. It has its applications in the study, explanation and observation of human behaviour and development of a society. But what I found troubling is its increasing frequency of subconscious misapplication on people we see everyday: Husbands leaving their families because they were being “true” to their feelings; Politicians lying through their political teeth in pursuit of a higher “truth”; People killing each other to hold on to their “truth” that prosperity is everything; and me making everyone around me suffer because I always believe I'm right.
Socrates was right. Inside of us, we already know what is right or wrong.