Wednesday, November 26, 2003
Is your PC showing?
Remember when you used to climb trees, take a plate of food to the community gathering, tell "Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotsmen" jokes? Gone. Along with scads of other aspects of our culture, that are being squashed by political correctness. We are being engineered into a mindless mass that dare not say anything is right or wrong. Muriel Newman has a very pithy and trenchant summary of what's going on. As Muriel points out, political correctness began with Lenin in the 1920s, as a means of exercising control in the communist party. Much research has been done on this by a lecturer in Russian studies at Reading University in the UK, Frank Ellis, who visited New Zealand earlier this year. He is about to publish a book on the topic, which will be an important read. If you can't wait for the book, try this article from Investigate Magazine.
Remember when you used to climb trees, take a plate of food to the community gathering, tell "Englishmen, Irishmen and Scotsmen" jokes? Gone. Along with scads of other aspects of our culture, that are being squashed by political correctness. We are being engineered into a mindless mass that dare not say anything is right or wrong. Muriel Newman has a very pithy and trenchant summary of what's going on. As Muriel points out, political correctness began with Lenin in the 1920s, as a means of exercising control in the communist party. Much research has been done on this by a lecturer in Russian studies at Reading University in the UK, Frank Ellis, who visited New Zealand earlier this year. He is about to publish a book on the topic, which will be an important read. If you can't wait for the book, try this article from Investigate Magazine.
