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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier
The thing is though, "PC" isn't necessarily something that is deliberately implemented or enforced... There isn't a valve we can turn to turn it off, it's already interwoven throughout society and self-sustaining in the very ways we're talking about (companies etc. shifting to fit their core customer base, and circularly, then reinforcing those mindsets).
So the answer, paradoxically, is that if you want to "get rid of PC" you have to do so forcibly by REMOVING freedoms, e.g. Creating laws that would - for example - make it illegal for a television studio to fire an actress or cancel her show for something else she has said "in her free time"... Which lessens that company's freedom to self govern and potentially impacts their profit margins. Something like that may even be "unconstitutional"? I'd be lying if I said I have more than a casual knowledge of those founding principles of the US though  . But I'm lead to believe that freedom to run one's business as one sees fit is "up there" in terms of US values? |
No, what I mean is move our focus back towards individual responsibility and to step away from this concept where our cultural ideals are enforced by a lynch mob every time a cultural "violation" has occurred. That isn't even helping those negative traits to work itself out of the culture... if anything, may have the opposite effect of further distilling the performance of our culture down to the results (or severity) of these cycles... it doesn't even account for what is going on in terms of improvements at the individual level.
"It Takes a Village", sure... but when that village is anti-social, has a low view of the overall world, an even lower regard for ethics and is extremely corrupt... then maybe it is wrong to expect that this is the place where balance will restore itself.