Submitted by Brandon Smith of Alt-Market.com,
As I have confessed in the past, in my early years I found myself active in
the Democratic Party and the general liberal methodology. I had no understanding
of the concept of the false left/right paradigm. I had no inkling of the dangers
of globalism and central banking. I had no concept of decentralization or
non-participation. I had never even heard of libertarianism. I knew only that
George W. Bush was a criminal (and I was right), but the problem went far deeper
than the GOP. I was astoundingly ignorant of the bigger picture.
However, what I did have going for me was an almost violent sense of
nonconformity. I hated collectivists, yet I found myself surrounded by them
while working within the leftist culture. It was the insanity of self-proclaimed
“liberals” that taught me the true nature of the facade of politics.
When I realized that the Democrats were essentially the same corrupt
entity as the neoconservatives, everything in my life changed.
One aspect of liberalism with which I am now very familiar is political
correctness. I didn’t understand it at the time, not until I stepped outside the
cultism of it and looked in from a wiser place. It always bothered me, but I
couldn’t quite grasp why until later. Then, it hit me like a revelation.
Political correctness was not a political ideology. No, it was a religion, a
full-fledged spiritual con, a New Age ghetto of frothing mishmash that is
sociological voodoo. And the leftists were eating it up like steak night at an
all-you-can-eat buffet.
These people were rationally retarded. Every idea they
proposed they merely parroted from books and articles they had read. They were
like malfunctioning automatons trapped in a cycle of discontented social
criticism. Their desperation to invent meaning in the midst of their irrelevant
lives made me feel ill. If they could not find a legitimate cause to champion,
they would create one out of thin air and defend it relentlessly, regardless of
how shallow it truly was.
When I outline my analysis of economic destabilization within the
United States or I write about the rise of the police state, I am driven by a
fundamental sense of concrete concern. There are indeed real problems
in the world, swirling in a storm of obvious factual conflicts. But the warriors
of the PC culture don’t see any of it. Rather, they fantasize about injustices
that don’t exist, trespasses that are ultimately fictional. They imagine
themselves champions of some greater purpose that, in the end, doesn’t
matter.
Recently, I read a news story about a “transgendered teen” in Maine. When the
boy was in the fifth grade, he decided to dress as a girl and demanded to use
the girl’s bathroom at his public school, despite having the biological
apparatus of a male. This story was international news, folks! Why? I can’t say,
except that the mainstream media have made a point to focus on “gender optional” issues as if they represent some
kind of civil rights uprising.
The issue perfectly illustrates the disturbing nature of politically correct
culture.
Teachers at the school did not deny the student the use of restroom
facilities. In fact, they allowed him to use the teacher’s bathrooms to
avoid any confusion. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, on the other hand, had
other ideas. It ruled that the school’s refusal to allow the boy to use
the girl’s facilities constituted a violation of the State’s anti-discrimination
law. The ruling has been heralded as a massive victory for the politically
correct narrative.
Now, let me make one thing clear: I could not care less about this boy’s
sexual orientation (if he even has one). I do think the very idea that a
fifth-grader at about the age of 10 is sexually conscious enough to develop a
sense of gender dissuasion is absurd. Children who haven’t even experienced
puberty yet, proclaiming they are transgendered? Utter nonsense. I find it far
more likely that the student’s PC-obsessed parents influenced him to come to
such a decision despite his naivety.
That said, a person’s sexual proclivities are not my concern. In fact, I have
no interest whatsoever in the infatuations of any individual. That is a personal
matter. I do not judge such people on their attractions. I do, though, judge
people on how they handle their infatuations. What happens when someone wears
his sexuality on his shoulder like a fashion accessory? Why is that even
necessary? Is it not rather mentally backward for any person to base his public
persona solely on his carnal compulsions? Do I dance around on the sidewalk
bellowing to strangers how much I love the curves of women? Do I require a
sociopolitical legal apparatus to vindicate my existence? Do I feel the need to
shame gay people into publicly embracing my straight man’s libido? No, I do
not.
The PC culture demands that we, as individuals, openly accept the sexual
orientations of anyone and everyone; otherwise, we are labeled prejudiced
monsters. It is not enough that we object in a logical manner. No, we must fall
to our knees and thank the stars for the very existence of gender
chameleons.
In the end, the psychological gender position of any particular person does
not overrule his biological features. A child with a penis is a boy.
Period. He will never be a girl. Ever. Not without surgical aid. And even then,
he will never have the ability to give birth, which is the very hallmark of
femininity. (Sorry, feminists, but that’s how it goes.) A boy, no matter his
mental orientation, does not belong in a girl’s lavatory. The privacy
rights of the girls outweigh the gender confusion of the boy. If I were a girl
(why not play some gender games since everyone else is), I would beat the living
hell out of any boy gallivanting in a dress in a bathroom I was using and make
sure he never dared come back. And, by extension, if I were a rather mischievous
boy with an aptitude as a peeping tom, why not dress up in a tutu in the hopes
of getting a glimpse of the forbidden while being legally protected by the
State?
The warped conflicts that arise, though, are not the creation of the child in
question. A fifth-grader has no concept of gender rights or political
correctness. This issue was a creation of the PC cult and its acolytes. These
people don’t actually care about the children they involve in their legal
dramas. They exploit them, with every intent to abandon them once they have
chiseled their agenda into the gray matter of every American.
What truly motivates these people? Why do they do what they do? I think my
experience with leftists makes me a well-positioned observer of the psychology
of the culture. Here are the hidden thought processes I have witnessed while
dealing directly with the PC army.
PC Elitism
One of the unfortunate side effects of religion is that proponents often use
it as a means to feel superior to others. I have seen it in Christianity as much
as I have seen it in any other belief system. It is the primary reason why I
refuse to subscribe to organized and establishment-sanctioned spiritualism.
Religion should be a personal experience first and foremost, not an easy way to
fit in with the collective. Communing with others who share one’s beliefs should
be secondary. Hypocritically, politically correct adherents often criticize
Christians for their collectivist elitism while suffering from the same problem
themselves.
PC culture allows participants to pretend as though they have some greater
understanding of the world, an elevated knowledge of life that makes them
superior to the uninitiated. It is important to understand that when a person
pursues the methodology of zealotry, he doesn’t do it to make the world a better
place; he does it to feel better about his place in the world.
The politically correct are so violent in the assertion of their ideals
because they crave the subjugation of the mainstream and a recognition of their
“rightness.” They don’t want people to “accept” their beliefs as tolerable. They
want people to adore their beliefs as supreme. They want every man,
woman and child to reinforce their ideals without question.
The malfunction of this philosophy is that zealots are never finished. They
must always find new ways to feel superior to others. So they continuously
engineer new taboos and new sins, no matter how ridiculous, so that they can
forever look down upon the laymen. Because of this, there will never be an end
to PC law. It will go on forever, labeling numerous social interactions and
stances as “aberrant” — never satiated and never satisfied.
PC Futurism
The young are always searching for ways to feel wiser than the old. This is
just the natural way of things, at least in America. Now, I know from ample
experience that age does not necessarily denote intelligence. I’ve met plenty of
idiotic people who had decades of time to learn from their mistakes but didn’t.
But the young, many of whom lack time and struggle, have a terrible tendency to
either pretend that they have “seen it all.” Or they pretend that the very
atmosphere of the day somehow gives them a greater insight than generations
past. The reality is that most of them know very little of import. This attitude
comes from a philosophy called “futurism” (popular with the Nazis and the
Soviets), which holds that all the beliefs and discoveries of the past mean
nothing compared to the beliefs and discoveries of the present. This ideology is
alluring to the young, because it gives them a way to feel intellectually
dominant over older and more “ignorant” people who are “behind the times.”
Political correctness is basically an appendage of futurism. By labeling
elders as social bigots and products of a barbaric era who don’t understand the
“lingo” of the PC elite, liberalism draws in and collectivizes the fledgling
left. Younger generations are given a cultural avenue toward high priesthood, a
right of passage usually reserved for the aged. They get to skip ahead past all
the trials and tribulations of life and announce their deep awareness of the
so-called greater good.
The values of forefathers past become archaic scrawlings of racist and
prejudiced cavemen who could never appreciate the “brilliance” of today’s
academia. The inherent freedoms of natural law that have existed since time
began are nothing more than obstacles to them, standing in the way of a new and
better world where they have somehow outsmarted human instinct and centuries of
history.
PC Collectivism
The very foundation of political correctness is solidified in a desire for
the perpetual reinforcement of one’s worldview. PC people need every other
person around them to sing the praises of their pure virtues. If I happen to
disagree with the idea of gender bending, for instance, as some kind of socially
persecuted subculture that needs overt government protection, then I am, of
course, labeled a hateful Neanderthal. If I stand in opposition to the concept
of victim group status in general, in which the state demands that designated
“minorities” be given special treatment regardless of the status of the
individual, then I become a racist political fossil ignorant of the bigger
picture. You see, if you disagree with PC culture in any way (even if that way
is rational), you cannot win. To refute political correctness is to refute the
god of the New Age; and to refute their god, even with concrete logic, is
blasphemy.
This kind of blind faith in political correctness lends itself entirely to
collectivism. The average person begins to think that without a viable
appreciation of the philosophy, he may be left out or cast aside. Most people do
not know how to function without the approval of others. Therefore, even if a
father happens to have a healthy skepticism over the idea of a make-up wearing
fifth-grade boy waltzing into his daughter’s school bathroom, he is likely to
keep his mouth shut, because to speak out would be a risk to his position within
the group, or the community.
PC Control
The prevalence of PC philosophy is not subtle. I have always found it
interesting that political correctness seems to consistently support the demands
of the state. Our system smothers children with it in public school, our
workplaces are rife with the propaganda for fear of lawsuits and colleges are
veritable breeding grounds for the PC oligarchy. Politically correct culture
goes out of its way to constantly test others to make sure they are also true
believers. This is exactly what is going on in the following interview with
Jerry Seinfeld, who, to his credit, dashes the nonsense to the ground.
The truth is some discrimination is healthy, and some discord is
needed for a society to remain balanced. As long as we don’t allow our
disagreements to end in the physical harm of others, then those disagreements
are our natural-born right. If you are a racist (this goes for non-whites as
well), that’s fine. Just don’t act out your racism in a violent way around me,
or I will have to put you down permanently. If you have a distaste of
homosexuality (or asexuality, as seems popular nowadays), then whatever, I don’t
care. You shouldn’t have to have organizations like GLAAD (formerly the Gay
& Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) in your face attempting to force you
to put on a smile for gaydom, coordinate man-on-man heavy-petting protests in
your favorite restaurant (Chick-fil-A) while you’re trying to eat a damn
sandwich, push boys into the girl’s bathroom, or trying to shut down your
favorite TV shows because the stars happen to share your views (“Duck
Dynasty”).
Now, PC proponents will argue that the very existence of bigotry does
harm to society as a whole, and it must be educated out of individuals. Frankly,
I see that kind of utopian fascism as a far greater threat to society as a whole
than bigotry ever will be.
Look at where we are today because of the PC nightmare! We have a Nation on
the verge of industrial and economic collapse, partly because companies are
forced by law or persuaded by government subsidies to hire people with victim
group status, even if they are unqualified, while ignoring highly qualified
people who just happen to have lighter skin. We have children not even old
enough to discover their own inherent character being clinically diagnosed with
“gender dysphoria” by a psychiatric community of quacks, which conjured most PC
terminology out of thin air. We have boys who are told that they are stunted for
acting out their natural male impulses and girls who are told that true
femininity is weakness and that they should act more masculine. We have a
mainstream culture that coddles and infantilizes young adults, young girls who
think promiscuity is the key to womanhood and that motherhood is disgusting
(which I find rather ironic), and young men who have no testicular fortitude and
no clue how to take charge of their own lives.
The American family unit has been completely destroyed. We
have women who are ashamed to set aside careers to raise children because
feminism frowns upon “breeders” who bring down the whole gender. We have men who
abandon their children and refuse to take responsibility. And we have a
weak-minded population addicted to collective affirmation and unwilling to think
outside the box for fear of being shunned and shamed. Honestly, I can’t see a
single redeeming quality to political correctness other than the fact that those
people who espouse it do so loudly and obnoxiously, making it easier for me to
identify and avoid them or to take special note of them as an obvious zombie
threat in an America swiftly declining into mundane oblivion.
