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Political Correctness
Jun. 4th, 2015 08:11 amI’ve been thinking a lot over the past few days about political correctness.
And how political correctness is a type of theology. It’s superimposed over a cultural foundation that’s used to thinking in terms of absolutes – Right versus Wrong – because it is, after all, a kind of syncretism growing on top of a kind of Christian view of the universe that has now – mostly – been discarded by America’s intelligensia. But the structural form remains.
To speak against the politically correct canon is to commit blasphemy. Political correctness is dogma, it’s a neural virus, and it’s pathological. People increasingly buy into it not because they believe it necessarily – although they may believe it or believe parts of it – but because they know if they don't buy into it, they’ll be abused.
The stupider ones may even believe it. Who fucking knows?
It’s no different from any fundamentalist variety of Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism.
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I’m off to Albany to play for a few days. Hopefully, my mood will improve.
And how political correctness is a type of theology. It’s superimposed over a cultural foundation that’s used to thinking in terms of absolutes – Right versus Wrong – because it is, after all, a kind of syncretism growing on top of a kind of Christian view of the universe that has now – mostly – been discarded by America’s intelligensia. But the structural form remains.
To speak against the politically correct canon is to commit blasphemy. Political correctness is dogma, it’s a neural virus, and it’s pathological. People increasingly buy into it not because they believe it necessarily – although they may believe it or believe parts of it – but because they know if they don't buy into it, they’ll be abused.
The stupider ones may even believe it. Who fucking knows?
It’s no different from any fundamentalist variety of Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism.
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I’m off to Albany to play for a few days. Hopefully, my mood will improve.
