"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." - Theodore Dalrymple
Yea, that was back when Dalrymple himself was excellent, he seems to have gone off the deep end a bit more recently. I wrote a Substack specifically on the progressive hatred of heroes awhile back.
I find this constant moral inversion extremely disturbing. Our civilisation used to be marked by shared values which would include a) murder being evil and b) someone trying to protect others good (heroic when such action puts the protector at risk). That a large number of people no longer subscribe to these civilisational values makes me wonder if it is actually possible to live alongside them. Do those of us who still hold these standards start to separate out? Like the Amish?
Why there are no true heroes on the left:
"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." - Theodore Dalrymple
Yea, that was back when Dalrymple himself was excellent, he seems to have gone off the deep end a bit more recently. I wrote a Substack specifically on the progressive hatred of heroes awhile back.
A fine insight.
Thanks Carl 😀
I find this constant moral inversion extremely disturbing. Our civilisation used to be marked by shared values which would include a) murder being evil and b) someone trying to protect others good (heroic when such action puts the protector at risk). That a large number of people no longer subscribe to these civilisational values makes me wonder if it is actually possible to live alongside them. Do those of us who still hold these standards start to separate out? Like the Amish?