Hi Ham, On 9 May 2009 at 12:29, Ham Priday wrote:
> Willblake, Arlo, Marsha, Platt and All -- > > > I don't know what Joseph Campbell's musings on religion and mythology have > to do with political correctness, so I'm going with a new thread title. > > No doubt you will regard my take on PC as hypocritical and naive. But if > you will bear with me I'll show you why this form of thought control is > detrimental to value sensibility in general and to a value-based > philosophy, such as the MoQ, in particular. > > When USA finalist Carrie Prejean was asked about her position on same sex > marriage by one of the judges, she candidly replied: "We live in a land > where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. And you know what, I > think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage > should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but > that's how I was raised." It was an honest answer to a trick question from > an openly gay inquisitor who had his own political agenda. The next day > that judge excoriated Miss California for her response, calling her a "dumb > bitch", and she was forthwith disqualified for the crown. > > Gentlemen, that's "political correctness" gone mad. Right. An assault on free speech by attempting to impose censorship through blatant intimidation. > Another version of PC is the use of language to alter the public's concepton > of social policy, such as the label "affirmative action" in place of > "minority preference", or "overseas contingency operation" instead of > "global war on terrorism". If you've read Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" > you'll recognize this kind of verbal obfuscation as a propaganda device to > promote "Doublethink". Words definitely change the way we think, and with > an insidious choice of words a politician can persuade the public that war > is peace or that evil is goodness. Joseph Goebbels made effective use of > Doublethink in his support of Hitler's campaign for power in Nazi Germany. PC is also practiced by the liberal main stream media by selecting stories favorable to Democrats and unfavorable to conservatives like Sarah Palin. But all you hear from the statists on this site is whining about talk radio. > In "The Historical Roots of 'Political Correctness'," Raymond Raehn wrote: > "America is today dominated by an alien system of beliefs, attitudes and > values that .seeks to impose a uniformity of thought and behavior on all > Americans and is therefore totalitarian in nature. Its roots lie in a > version of Marxism which seeks a radical inversion of the traditional > culture in order to create a social revolution." > In fact, political correctness is the postmodern world's form of thought > control. What it does is blind > the public's discriminative sense of value in an attempt to justify a > political agenda, such as "social equality" or governmental redistribution > of wealth. The liberal intellectual's adoption of postmodern "contextualism" is a similar attempt to blind the public's discriminative sense of value. > The reason Doublethink works as a method of thought control is lucidly > explained in a short essay I discovered last week by the author of an > Australian quarterly. Here's a seminal excerpt from that essay: > > "A common response to modern moral confusion is to blame the decline of > religion, which no doubt has weakened the hold of traditional morality. But > it is a mistake to think that morality, to be valid, must rest on > unquestionable foundations. > > "Another view of morality sees it as consisting of conventions or rules of > conduct that have evolved to make social co-operation possible. Perhaps we > cannot prove that the rule of keeping promises is absolutely morally right > but we know that if we break it then the benefits we all receive from > society are much reduced. This conservative notion of morality is > relativist in that it recognises that different conventions suit different > societies, but it's also true that most societies share some basic, > necessary rules, like truth telling and rights to property. > > "The trouble is that, for many people, good behaviour is not enough; they > want morality to do the job that religion used to do, by teaching them how > to save their souls. Nowadays, we are encouraged to judge people's moral > credentials in terms of how "concerned" and "caring" they are rather than > whether they can be relied on to fulfil their humble duties. But > professions of contempt for "mere" rules and conventions, and sentimental > emphasis on good intentions and motives rather than actual conduct and > outcomes, can mask a lot of moral vanity and fecklessness. > > "Doublethink in public debate is a reflection of the moral confusions and > doubts that afflict modern Western society. Exposing it is the first step > towards bringing people back into contact with their own true values." > -- [Michael James: Intolerable Level of Doublethink, from 'The > Thinking Man's CDROM'] > > For anyone interested, I'll be running the entire essay in my Values Page > column all next week. Check it out at www.essentialism.net/balance.htm > starting Sunday, May 10. Truth well stated. Of course, to the PC crowd, truth is as relative as their morals, yet at the same time they insist their ideas of right and wrong are true and will harass, vilify, demonize, slur, slime and knee cap anyone who dares say otherwise in the best Joseph Goebbels fashion. Best regards, Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
