Roman historian Tacitus dated the beginning of the Roman end of Liberty with the end of free speech. America and the West has come to that same historical pivot point where, through the deadening effect of political correctness on our speech, we are nearing the end of liberty. We no longer have liberty to speak plainly about any number of subjects, and the inability to speak plainly about these subjects serves to further the religious and political ends of those who would disembowel the theological, ideological, and cultural underpinnings of the West.
Because of the corrosive affect of Political correctness upon our speech — and so upon our thought — we are in danger of no longer having the liberty to speak against inferior sexuality, against inferior ideologies, against inferior pagan religions, against inferior cultures, or against inferior political philosophies. The campaign of political correctness against liberty of speech has managed, through the craft of subterfuge, to convince or cow people into thinking that superior thought and speech is that thought and speech that doesn’t see anything as being inferior except the belief that some truths, or cultural arrangement are superior to other truths or cultural arrangements.
We have to restore our language. To restore our language is to, at the same time, restore our ability to think critically. In order to get back our liberty we are going to have to begin again to say what we think irrespective of those who don’t like it and regardless of how people howl at ideas they don’t like. With that beginning we can proceed to speak plainly to the West again and wrench it’s thinking away from the PC cultural Marxist thought police.
Amen.
Worse, we’re not forced to engage in it; we choose to do it. PC-speak is not outlawed here … yet. You can get away with it, but, depending on the forum and message, you risk becoming an outcast. People simply choose to publicly censor themselves in order to gain social status.
Joshua,
That is an interesting phenomenon. It is almost as if society has created taboo around certain speech so that even though it is not technically illegal to speak certain ways such taboo speech, if engaged in, makes one socially outcast.
So, I guess the question is, is where are the taboos coming from. Who are creating them? How are they being created? What is the way to break the taboo?
I’m reminded of a cartoon that used to circulate around the base I was once stationed on way back in the days when you could still somewhat freely speak your mind. It’s a cartoon of a mouse being descended upon by a large bird of prey. The mouse is sending a particular hand gesture to the bird.
It also reminded me of an incident during Mr. Clinton’s presidency when he visited the republic of Ireland. The local anti-abortion group Youth Defence imported a number of large pictures of murdered preborn children to display along the route Clinton was walking. The police confiscated all the ones they could find. As the story goes, one of the elderly people that was protesting with Youth Defence had Mr. Clinton stick out his hand to her in a gesture of friendship. She, in return, having no sign to confront him with regarding his support of baby murder, used the same hand gesture referred to in the previous paragraph.
It just seems to me that sometimes the most effective way to communicate a thought to someone who just doesn’t ‘get it’ is to use a method of communication they do understand, and repent of it later. I am since learning better and less crude ways to express myself, but, sadly, my flesh gets the better of me on occasion. LORD, help me to speak the Truth of Your Word in true love to those who desperately need it, beginning with me first.
Well said Jim.