A
NEW SOCIETY?
Sometimes
it’s difficult to get this old mind to wrap around how our society is being
shaped by attitudes, regulations, hearsay, and particularly by what is called “political
correctness”. Our speech and our actions
are no longer honest, but are instead governed by the loud noise of
condemnation. It’s kind of looking at a
movie about the clique’s of school adolescents setting up rules of who to
include and who to shun or abuse. We can
no longer determine what a person really thinks by their actions. The
individual’s need of acceptance is an important trait of our species and in our
quest for acceptance we are like the chameleon, changing our speech and our
actions to match someone else’s criteria.
The fear of rejection, the need to be right, causes most of us to put
forth the persona required for acceptance by the herd. We, in fact, are put in the position of lying
about who we really are.
The use
of “political correctness” as a societal tool of change, herding the majority
into like-mindedness, seems to too be changing the mores, values, and ethics of
our people. We can see the effect of this
method of group indoctrination in the growth of discontent throughout our
society. Changes in society are no
longer many decades long but are now taking place with-in much shorter time
spans. The use of “political correctness”
by educational facilities, media outlets, and social networking has allowed
small groups to spread their sync-think much more rapidly than at any time
throughout the history of mankind. We no
longer have the help of time to prove the validity of the changes being
promoted or the unintended consequence that might be a part of those
changes. The pendulum is moving to
rapidly to inspect, what we are doing, and the inherent consequence. We can no longer determine if the voice
crying wolf is real or false.
Do we
want a nation standing on the sand of lies or do we want one growing out of the
bedrock of truth.
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