Political

Political Correctness
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Monday, January 18, 2010

Christianity, Judaism.
Dead White Males. Old-fashioned morality.
The traditional family. Tradition itself

These are the betes noires of the elites. They are the pillars of incorrectness. Together, they constitute the thing called Western civilization.
Political correctness, at its heart, is the effort to dissolve the foundation on which American and European culture has been built. It has been a demolition project: undermine Western civilization in whatever way possible, and build a brave new world from the rubble.

Multiculturalism has nothing to do with genuine love for natives of the Australian outback or the monks of Tibet. It is an effort to crowd out our own cultural traditions. Radical secularization – in the name of “separation of church and state” – aims to burn out our religious roots.
Public education, purveying convenient untruths about our past – the Middle Ages were miserable, the ancients were simpletons, the church is oppressive – has sought to rob us of our heritage.

Misrepresentations of the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the last two hundred years serve to create an illusion of unvarying progress made possible by abandoning the old ways. And that is the central myth that justifies the continued discarding of our religious, intellectual, and moral tradition.

Once our culture is untethered from Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem – once we’ve forgotten about or dismissed Moses, Plato, and Jesus- then the PC platoons in academia, government, & the media hope to steer the ship of culture to new shores.
Because political correctness is a project of destruction, the message has not always been consistent. Either Shakespeare was a subversive, closeted homosexual, or he was an ignorant chauvinist. Either Jesus was a non-judgmental hippie, or he was a preacher of hate. But this much has been consistent. Anything that reeks of the West is therefore politically incorrect and must be denigrated and condemned.

For those of us who love the West, it’s a daunting battle. The other side has the mainstream media, the Ivy League, the political classes, and a lot more money. Thankfully, on our side, we’ve got thousands of years of history and some pretty big guns with name like Aristotle, Augustine, Burke, and Eliot.
The bad ideas touted today as revolutionary and enlightened are hardly new; the West’s great minds have battled relativism, atheism, materialism, and State-worship for millennia. The great ideas can hold their own against anything the most renowned … Studies professor can devise.
All of the above in the Preface of Anthony Esolen’s book, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization,” 2008, Regnery Publishing Inc.
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