Thursday, 31 March 2011

What we cannot have: modernity minus PC

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Whatever the future holds, one things we cannot have (even if we want it) is modern society minus political correctness.

We cannot have freedom, growth, capability, comfort etc.... minus PC.

And of course we cannot have freedom, growth, capability, comfort etc with PC; because PC is actively destroying all of these.

We are going to lose modern society whatever happens - whether PC continues, or whether PC is destroyed and replaced.

Modernity is doomed: suck it up!

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We cannot return to modern society pre political correctness.

That is, we cannot go back to 'the fifties', which was merely a transitional era when PC had not quite broken through to dominance; but it was there, and all trends were set for it to take-over.

Furthermore we cannot overcome the problem by returning to Victorian times, or the early American Republic, or the Stuart absolute monarchy, nor even to Medieval Europe.

It would be futile to try, but we cannot even try; because there are no grounds for leverage.

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For example, we cannot generate reactionary change using democracy, or hedonism, or economic materialism, or nationalism, or science, or art, or via the mass media or even via Christianity - since all of these systems are now PC.

Any use of any of these will merely loop-back to PC via a short detour.  

We would be trying to get rid of one part of PC by using another part of PC - hauling on a folded lever with both ends in the same place.

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(What can we do? Repentance is the first step. We must repent the modern experiment. Which is why the delusion of working to restore modernity-minus-PC is fatal: it prevents, or at least delays, repentance. Acceptance that we cannot have what we want (or, what we think we want) is the first step in making a choice between the options on offer.)

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