Political Correctness is Counter to Human Nature

Political correctness and all the other aspects of post modern liberalism are counter to human nature.

Post Modern Liberalism requires much more social pressure and constant indoctrination and enforcement to maintain their hold. We are told what is right from the moment we enter our public institutions of higher learning. Even those who seek out refuge in the private sector are bombarded by these cancerous affects of PC. However, PC is therefore not as strong as it may appear to be; it is merely being propped up by an elaborate structure of enforcement. So liberalism is a high-maintenance kind of system; it conflicts with what is normal in human nature. Egalitarianism, enforced altruism and coerced niceness do not come naturally to people.

However, one thing PC has working for it is that it appeals to the vanity of human beings; those who religiously practice liberal attitudes, towards minorities, for example, have the reward of "feeling good about themselves". Our liberal society counts racial liberalism as the highest virtue, and people who follow this mantra want to be seen as enlightened. However, what is ironic about this, is that by treating minorites with preferences and special treatments they are no less "racist" then their fore fathers.

Post-modern westerners no longer value sexual virtue, for example, or religious piety, but they value racial piety as manifested in PC and multiculturalism. So there is an incentive for people who buy into the secular religion of liberalism to maintain their egalitarian, politically correct postures. Many rewards mount to those who toe the PC line and punishments and social ostracism await those who rebel against the liberal orthodoxies where political correctness is concerned. Think: Don Imus, Michael Savage, and countless others who fell outside of the PC code.

Ironically, much of the enforcement of political correctness is not in the hands of the authorities, at least in America; it's democratically enforced, even sub consciously. Our fellow citizens will often react to punish offenders or to make an example of them. We censor ourselves, and if we don't, someone is ready and waiting to do it for us. Who needs the Soviet Union?

I think that one of the most important things we can do is to work, first, to free ourselves from the crippling effects of PC. All of us are, by virtue of living in this society, overdosed on PC, and some of us are less aware of how much of it we accept unthinkingly. It infects our whole society, even in innocuous guises like entertainment and commercials.

It's part of the air we breathe.