I don't agree. I think Western intellectuals were unwilling to accept simple an obvious truths and wanted something more "profound". There's a real objective world outside my mind, which I can learn about through observation and experimentation. There's no need to complicate with a bunch of bullshit.

Beef bacon at my grocer is cured with Sodium Erythrobate which makes me shit blood

if any of the criminal gang leaders want to kill each other that's their business