tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post8167772445085052127..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Faith and works in Political CorrectnessBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-59999423697075968252010-11-12T09:30:07.133+00:002010-11-12T09:30:07.133+00:00According to studies, those who have (concerning i...According to studies, those who have (concerning in this particular case PC) "unacceptable" thoughts, impulses and predispositions; guilt about it; feelings of inadequacy; etc. are more likely to be first and second degree punishers of deviants, non-PC people and not enough PC people. This serves as a "redeeming from their secular sins" and it needs regular repetition. This mildly costly signal shows to the surrounding people their social worth and props up momentarily their self-image as good and adequate PC people.<br /><br />"Under a system of PC, here and now in the West, the individual must adjust, again and again, to the widening wave of socially-defined progress, of moral denial, extrapolation and inversion."<br /><br />- This corresponds to the methods of many cults, slightly less intense version of it. Cults have special words and phrases, beliefs, rules, rituals, ways of thinking and doing, etc. that are changed constantly. The followers must constantly be on the edge, constantly learning the new things, always busy, no time and energy for own thoughts. The followers are constantly running to to keep up with the changes. There is no permanent logic in these changes, capricious they are. The followers must constantly listen and watch the leaders, and learn. The leaders test the followers loyality, eagerness, fanaticism and interest by checking if the followers have learned the new things. Those who submit to this most are rewarded and perhaps promoted, failures are punished and may lead to e.g. exclusion from the cult or exclusion from responsible positions in the cult. <br /><br />The cult way of thinking and doing are so strange and so different from the normal or other outside ways, that the follower in the end can't and don't want to communicate with outsiders, and he doesn't understand them. Every meaning outsiders try to communicate to the follower is given the cult meaning and interpretation, whatever it is at the moment, but always radically different than outsiders'. The followers learn various methods of thought stopping and distraction if unacceptable outsider thinking occurs in their minds.a Finnnoreply@blogger.com