[lbo-talk] Mailer bloviates

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 1 08:24:49 PDT 2005


I wont comment on his alleged racist statement, because I dont know what the context was. His statements MAY have been racist, but I dont see where he is "bloviating". This statement is undoubtedly true:

<<I will remark
> that political correctness is a toxic to American
> freedom.

PCness puts a straight-jacket on discussion. It replaces sincere reflection and resolution with undigested signs: one uses supposedly correct language and, poof, magically that makes one anti-racist, anti-sexist, etc. Wouldn't it be better to go to the thing itself, as ugly as it might be, rather than delude ourselves with linguistic mirages?

Thomas

<<We are at such a point in mankind's evolution where changed conditions invalidate all our policies that have been so successful even in the recent past, and that presumably have constituted the ideal response to a presumably unchanging and unchangeable human condition. No wonder we are stupefied and confused-but our mistake is the same which many cultures have made before us, namely to force a rigid model upon a fluid reality.

Erich Jantsch - "Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems"

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