The idea that there is no truth but only power has pervaded today’s cultural, civic, and political institutions at large. Nihilistic in nature, it’s being witnessed alongside an “extraordinary civilizational crisis.” “This idea that there’s no truth but power, the nihilism behind it, it emanates into all of the institutions and the forms of life and culture through which we understand ourselves,” said Stephen Blackwood, the founding President of Ralston College, a new university in Savannah, Georgia. The same idea erodes a person’s belief in his or her potential, and “what you end up with is like a human being in a cage, and you’re looking at a dark horizon, you’re blinded,” he told The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program. “Once you close that [horizon] down, and you say ‘No, there’s just the battle of the will to power’—one against everyone and everyone against each other—you know, life gets …