Good writing is honest and truthful. It brings out the light.
Wednesday 31 July 2013
PC gone mad (my head is going round)
Political correctness is the distortion of reality made to suit the interests of certain groups. Not being able to say certain things is only a mere sample.
4 comments:
Tim
said...
I don't know you personally, but your views jibe with mine, and I like what I am reading. I am 43, Canadian, and an English major. I harbor the same mistrust of the media as you apparently do. I also think "good writing" is tremendously important.
Are you a young woman? In university? I can't help my curiosity. Which city in Aus are you from? It's so rare to come across a person with similar notions about our world. I guess I am a little smitten.
It's really impressive to read this from a young woman. Here in Canada, women are for the most part entirely seduced by feminism. But that's not really important. I simply appreciate someone with the capacity for doubt and a hankering after the truth.
Postmodernism is the opposite of the enlightenment. In the enlightenment tradition, we can encounter reality and come to know ourselves more fully. With postmodernism we can know nothing. Most people don't know what has happened; that the university essentially changed around 50 years ago from the enlightenment tradition to postmodernism. Specifically, men don't know what has happened. They are wandering around campus like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights, walking by a rendition of the Vagina Monologues, feigning applause, smiling awkwardly, and wondering to himself why he feels so castrated in the Departments of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Enough on that. I just finished reading Bruce Bawer's "Victims Revolution". You would like it. He takes apart postmodern phrases like, "site" - ('site' of resistance or oppression). "gaze" - (when a man looks at you). "discourse" - (talk).
I wonder how long this can last? I would like to say not long, but Europe was in the Dark Ages for 1000 years. All that learning from Rome was lost. It's not impossible that postmodernism - the belief that knowledge is unstable and therefore we can know nothing - will be with us for a very long time.
4 comments:
I don't know you personally, but your views jibe with mine, and I like what I am reading. I am 43, Canadian, and an English major. I harbor the same mistrust of the media as you apparently do. I also think "good writing" is tremendously important.
Are you a young woman? In university? I can't help my curiosity. Which city in Aus are you from? It's so rare to come across a person with similar notions about our world. I guess I am a little smitten.
Tim,
Yes, I am a young woman in uni. I am from Brisbane.
I write the blog to help people see through the distorts of many modern philosophies.
It's really impressive to read this from a young woman. Here in Canada, women are for the most part entirely seduced by feminism. But that's not really important. I simply appreciate someone with the capacity for doubt and a hankering after the truth.
Postmodernism is the opposite of the enlightenment. In the enlightenment tradition, we can encounter reality and come to know ourselves more fully. With postmodernism we can know nothing. Most people don't know what has happened; that the university essentially changed around 50 years ago from the enlightenment tradition to postmodernism. Specifically, men don't know what has happened. They are wandering around campus like the proverbial deer caught in the headlights, walking by a rendition of the Vagina Monologues, feigning applause, smiling awkwardly, and wondering to himself why he feels so castrated in the Departments of Humanities and Social Sciences.
Enough on that. I just finished reading Bruce Bawer's "Victims Revolution". You would like it. He takes apart postmodern phrases like, "site" - ('site' of resistance or oppression). "gaze" - (when a man looks at you). "discourse" - (talk).
I wonder how long this can last? I would like to say not long, but Europe was in the Dark Ages for 1000 years. All that learning from Rome was lost. It's not impossible that postmodernism - the belief that knowledge is unstable and therefore we can know nothing - will be with us for a very long time.
Thanks for the suggestion about the book. So many people just can't see through the deceptions of our modern world.
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