tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7954041633537782655..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Best ever description of political correctness in a nutshell?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76972738217755831292012-03-14T05:56:50.897+00:002012-03-14T05:56:50.897+00:00I actually do not understand
the Aristotelian quo...I actually do not understand <br />the Aristotelian quotation on the different degrees of superiority and inferiority. It is intuitive but hard to make explicit. <br /><br />I think it is necessary for reactionaries to regain the understanding of Hierarchy in its full glory.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-60839211496148546442012-03-14T05:45:25.812+00:002012-03-14T05:45:25.812+00:00@Sampson J - I would say not, on the whole. As Chu...@Sampson J - I would say not, on the whole. As Church music I like best the English 16th century style of Tallis, Byrd, Tomkins etc; and the Russian Orthodox choirs - but I don't have much expertise in the subject.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-213284930213908942012-03-14T00:59:37.484+00:002012-03-14T00:59:37.484+00:00Off-topic: Dr. Charlton, we know you're a big ...Off-topic: Dr. Charlton, we know you're a big fan of the Byzantine Empire. Are you by chance a Gregorian Chant enthusiast, as well?Samson J.http://samsonsjawbone.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-9017580030144870082012-03-13T16:43:19.833+00:002012-03-13T16:43:19.833+00:00@Svein Sellanraa
The practitioners of PC that I k...@Svein Sellanraa<br /><br />The practitioners of PC that I know, nauseating though they are, use language publically that they do not use in private. Language is where it starts for them. They are in fact the most judgmental people around. In fact they make snap judgements on everyone, and no one, once they have uttered a transgression can ever achieve redemption. <br /><br />This description of PCism by Wright is excellent. If you apply any of his postulations to PC people you know they work...Ughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17267287853892482870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-48547822253758077802012-03-13T12:56:37.242+00:002012-03-13T12:56:37.242+00:00@Gyan - what you are describing is the moderate lf...@Gyan - what you are describing is the moderate lfet - i.e. the mainstream conservatives and libertarians are actually moderate left. The only true political right is off the political map, and outwith public discourse (I mean in places like the US and UK) - e.g. the internal politics of the Amish, ultra Orthodox Jews etc.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-31649723976578471172012-03-13T11:23:53.847+00:002012-03-13T11:23:53.847+00:00There is PC of the Right too.
You must not offend
...There is PC of the Right too.<br />You must not offend<br />1) Equality of Women<br />2) Dogma of Adam Smith<br /><br />CS Lewis in Preface to Paradise Lost <br />quotes Aristotle:<br /><br />"A man should rule his slaves despotically, his children monarchically, and his wife politically."<br /><br />Plenty of people on the Right would not approve.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68660926552877246492012-03-13T10:54:01.399+00:002012-03-13T10:54:01.399+00:00@SS & dearieme - I meant that *the whole passa...@SS & dearieme - I meant that *the whole passage* was an excellent definition of PC - not specific extracted sentences or points - which are obviously partial truths, and not intended to be complete detachable definitions, or else there would not have been so many other points made.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13671579376569284312012-03-13T10:44:30.840+00:002012-03-13T10:44:30.840+00:00"PC is a mental aberration resulting from laz..."PC is a mental aberration resulting from laziness and a reliance upon substituting lies for truth to further a political illusion": but that doesn't define PC because it can cover many ther phenomena. For example, the Pope's call for a crusade.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-47904777319934697832012-03-13T09:34:24.874+00:002012-03-13T09:34:24.874+00:00This was excellent. I do have one quibble, though:...This was excellent. I do have one quibble, though:<br /><br />"Fourth, the solution of problems is effortless. All we need do is change our language, and it will change our thinking; our thinking creates reality, and so politically correct language will create goodthink which will make all problems, economic and social and personal, vanish by magic."<br /><br />I think this notion that PC is only concerned with changing language, which I've heard expressed elsewhere as well, misses something important. Political correctness surely extends further, among other things to how history is taught in schools and universities, how the media report on crime and other things, how marriage, human rights, and God knows what else is continually being redefined by legislators, and so on. I agree that the reconstruction of language plays an important part in it---and not just in the sense that we now have to say "Asian" instead of "Oriental", "African-American" instead of "Negro", and so on---but Newspeak is not all there is to Oceania, as it were.Svein Sellanraahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01900874306856185600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-22632325944502726122012-03-13T04:01:23.414+00:002012-03-13T04:01:23.414+00:00That everything is power struggle is in nutshell t...That everything is power struggle is in nutshell the philosophy of Hell, as it denies the possibility of Love. <br /><br />I.e. for feminists, the marriage as such is oppressive since Church and other traditions say that the wife must be subject to her husband. They can not conceive of a hierarchy that exists on the basis of Love.Gyanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09941686166886986037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88423332453774350912012-03-12T19:12:18.774+00:002012-03-12T19:12:18.774+00:00It's all relative, Bruce.
ADD? Me? I don'...It's all relative, Bruce. <br />ADD? Me? I don't think so. <br />PC can be summed up in a very few words, for example: PC is a mental aberration resulting from laziness and a reliance upon substituting lies for truth to further a political illusion. <br /><br />Still, it made satisfying reading.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-46322636500390560902012-03-12T17:42:15.433+00:002012-03-12T17:42:15.433+00:00Ahem, Crow - that is less than 1000 words.
Are y...Ahem, Crow - that is less than 1000 words. <br /><br />Are you suffering from attention deficit disorder, my corvine friend?Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-16018194725759358362012-03-12T17:29:46.956+00:002012-03-12T17:29:46.956+00:00That's hardly a nutshell. It's complex and...That's hardly a nutshell. It's complex and long-winded. <br />But certainly, it is accurate. <br />It's curious: I have never seen human interactions as a power-struggle. But clearly I am unusual. <br />Human interactions do, these days, always seem to turn into a competition. <br />We live in difficult times.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.com