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For 200 years the mentality of Capitalism dominated the Western world. Money and knowledge became bargaining chips, values once held to be sacred began to lose meaning, and the public at large was split into a brutal class system. Yet at the end of the Victorian era, a single force would arise that would shake Western thought and Western political systems to their core, a force that was not even Western: India.
For nearly 400 years the Renaissance and its progeny dominated Western thought. The movement had influenced nearly all of society by the time the rumblings of its own demise were first felt. The downfall for the culture came from the most unlikely of sources: the Scottish highland. These Scots, with their minds bent on getting back at the Britain who had stolen away their means of living, would ultimately subvert and change the entirety of Western culture.
The concept of truth has a history that is peculiar and event filled. Even though seemingly benign, the history of this singular base concept of “what is truth” has shaped the world as it is today. Three times in the history of humanity since the fall of the Roman Empire, truth’s definition and the meaning men give it have changed. With each change came a catalyst that took the boiling water of philosophy and emotion at the time and allowed it to erupt into an all-encompassing idea that shaped the Western world.
