Retreat From Reason IV

'Across much of Britain's public discourse, a reliance
on reason has been replaced with a reliance on the
emotional appeal of an argument. Parallel to the once-trusted
world of empiricism and deductive reasoning, an
often overwhelmingly powerful emotional landscape has
been created, rewarding people with feelings of virtue for
some beliefs, or punishing with feelings of guilt for others.
It is a belief system that echoes religion in providing
ready, emotionally satisfying answers for a world too
complex to understand fully, and providing a gratifying
sense of righteousness absent in our otherwise secular
society.
The result is that public figures sanctified as being
politically correct (the high priests of PC, such as Michael
Moore) are listened to with reverence on any potentially
controversial issue, safe in the knowledge that even if
what they say suffers the insignificant drawback of being
wrong, it will at least enjoy the far for important benefit of
being PC.
The politically incorrect arguments aren't engaged
with; they are just stated in a way that everyone will
understand means it is unacceptable because it is not PC.'

From: 'The Retreat From Reason:
Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain'
by Anthony Browne

C/O ROBBIE

THE LORD HIGH EXECUTIONER wrote:
> 'Across much of Britain's public discourse, a reliance
> on reason has been replaced with a reliance on the
> emotional appeal of an argument. Parallel to the once-trusted
> world of empiricism and deductive reasoning, an
> often overwhelmingly powerful emotional landscape has
> been created, rewarding people with feelings of virtue for
> some beliefs, or punishing with feelings of guilt for others.
> It is a belief system that echoes religion in providing
> ready, emotionally satisfying answers for a world too
> complex to understand fully, and providing a gratifying
> sense of righteousness absent in our otherwise secular
> society.
> The result is that public figures sanctified as being
> politically correct (the high priests of PC, such as Michael
> Moore) are listened to with reverence on any potentially
> controversial issue, safe in the knowledge that even if
> what they say suffers the insignificant drawback of being
> wrong, it will at least enjoy the far for important benefit of
> being PC.
> The politically incorrect arguments aren't engaged
> with; they are just stated in a way that everyone will
> understand means it is unacceptable because it is not PC.'
>
> From: 'The Retreat From Reason:
> Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain'
> by Anthony Browne
>
> C/O ROBBIE

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