To: Tolik
Dalrymple: 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. Utterly and absolutely true. And the taint of political correctness has sunk deep into our world.
6 posted on
09/20/2005 8:07:52 AM PDT by
neutrino
(Globalization “is the economic treason that dare not speak its name.” (173))
To: neutrino; LS; Landru; bert
Interesting that this paragraph has jumped out at several others(GMTA and all???):
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.
His notion that propaganda is used primarily as a tool to humiliate could help explain the MSM's busybodies' persistence in riding their dying horse into the ground. The wilder the claim, the better. In addition to pointing out some other human foibles.....noteworhty.
FGS
11 posted on
09/20/2005 8:49:01 AM PDT by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
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