Thursday, December 28, 2006
Critical Thinking & Political Correctness
What comes first, paralysis of critical thinking or political correctness ? In other words, does one have to learn to do and say dumb things or does it come naturally? Well anyone can do or say dumb things but they can learn from their mistakes. But with respect to political correctness, dumb deeds and mantras are taught, repeatedly enforced and become part of the culture.
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Political correctness and its Progressive ideological parent are distinguishable from the middle, the right, and classical Liberalism (e.g., the Liberalism of individual rights) precisely because they eschew or surrender critical thinking and rationalism, relying instead, by default and design, on purely emotional appeals. They would not and could not argue otherwise. After all, their ideology has been formed over two centuries quite deliberately hostile to the power of reason. From Kant to Rawles to Chomsky to Obama, the survival of their belief system depends upon the deconstruction of language and logic and judgment in favor of relativism and justification. To this day, no one--not a single philosopher or statesman or common man--has articulated a rational basis for the self-sacrificing "altruistic" premise that lies at the heart of Progressivism. No one has and no one will because no one can. There is no rational or logical foundation for the modern Left. It is, in every way, a bankrupt belief system, which is why today we have such a deafening silence from the President and his party. They've arrived at the inevitable terminus of their evasions. They have no answers.
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