Message from @Platon et la MG42
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I don't take issue with it, I just mean that when I re-contextualize the idea for myself, it's adapted
yeah that's all I meant really
he presents it in a very general way I thought
Yeah, I agree, there wasn't anything that was exclusively christian to me
Bruce Charlton builds off this in a different sort of tone and I think in a deeper and more specific sort of way
with his few short books on mass media, PC liberalism and even the question of Genius
this one is really good I thought
its written in an aphoristic style so you can read it in short chunks
and makes it quotable as well
Political correctness obviously dominates its core territory of politics, public administration (the civil service), law, education and (especially!) the mass media. But PC also substantially shapes everything else: foreign policy, the military, policing, the economy, health services, and personal life: the mating game, friendships and even family life.
Therefore political correctness is objectively totalitarian.
Just as with the cruder totalitarianism of the mid-twentieth century, PC has created a population that lives in fear: fear of being denounced and losing everything – fear of committing (or indeed merely being accused-of) a thought crime or uttering a hate fact for which there is no defence; fear of the sanctions which range from social ostracism, through loss of job, financial penalties, up to directed mob violence and imprisonment.
Consequently the mass of people, especially those of status - with power and influence – have learned and internalized the constraints of political correctness, so that it is now something inside us, as well as pressing upon us. The lies, shabbiness and wickedness of PC now permeate our very thought processes.
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Even as such a reactionary speaks, or is read, or watched – as he invades PC discourse - the politically correct can feel their life draining away, can sense the world receding, can perceive the delusional world crumbling, the void yawning.
Hence the viciousness, the panicked attack using anything to hand which might work: ad hominem inventions (immediately believed as facts), fantasied motivations, lies of any and every kind and even violence (at second hand – regretted, maybe, but not condemned).
For the PC it is vitally necessary to control discourse, to exclude all hostile communications if possible, immediately to stop them if they break through. There can be no delay – effective dissent must be shouted-down, mocked, vilified, shut-up; the politically correct must switch-off, turn-away, gabble and gossip to drown or silence the hostile discourse; instruct, direct and unleash the mob - then begin again to rebuild the thought prison of PC discourse by their own words, in their own image.
hang on, gotta make a call
I strongly urge everyone to read the Thought Prison link when they have time to
I saved it
unfortunately for my current mood, my phone call created another two hours of billables today lol
I have read it some time ago
have you really?
cool, how did you come across it?
I am just curious, because I feel he is underappreciated
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I think political correctness is a kind of cognitive dissonance
Women are capable of tremendous cognitive dissonance because they do not rationalize their actions and behaviors
I can't tell you how many times I've heard a woman say one thing and seen her do the complete opposite
They say and do what makes them feel good, regardless of its rational consistency
In that way, they are slaves to instinct
Political correctness is the crowdsourced maintenance of egalitarian society
and it's like a shelter for truth
a conflict shelter
i was talking to a leftist girl once
when i told her what i thought, she told "you can't say that"
I don't know if shelter is the right word for it
Maybe it is
it can be compared to a countermeasure
in aeronotic
fallot
to what extent do you feel my personal pathology comes from unwillingness to submit to authority
open up that boipuss
some degree of social pressure to conform seems reasoanble
you say things that have sense (ex : diversity is shitty, and you say why)
you don't generate argumentations, but conflict because you say things that "you can't say" and you're a racist nazi bad little hitler