[]...It will be ridicule, rather than argument, that will ultimately bring political correctness down.
Wokeness Is No Laughing Matter?...then why am I laughing?
I remember once hearing someone who dealt with such things point out that there was one particular trait characterizing all cult religions: the lack of a sense of humor, not only with regard to others, but in relation to themselves as well. Cult religions, after all, are usually obsessed with one doctrine, to which all others are subordinate, leaving room for little else.
This characteristic, G. K. Chesterton observed, is one common to insane people. The madman, he said, "is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point. He is without healthy hesitation and healthy complexity."
The new Cult of Wokeness shares this peculiarity. It is obsessed with race and gender. All other things are to be set aside as irrelevant.
I remember once hearing someone who dealt with such things point out that there was one particular trait characterizing all cult religions: the lack of a sense of humor, not only with regard to others, but in relation to themselves as well. Cult religions, after all, are usually obsessed with one doctrine, to which all others are subordinate, leaving room for little else.
This characteristic, G. K. Chesterton observed, is one common to insane people. The madman, he said, "is in the clean and well-lit prison of one idea: he is sharpened to one painful point. He is without healthy hesitation and healthy complexity."
The new Cult of Wokeness shares this peculiarity. It is obsessed with race and gender. All other things are to be set aside as irrelevant.
A common behavior of all religions? Almost, well those adherents who are unsure and who need to make a public commitment on hats and shirt fronts. An exception, some Buddhists, some I know are inherently happy so everything in life causes a smile and a response with good humor. But Buddhism is not a religion.
History be told, it was his favorite perversion.
"One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms,β said H. L. Mencken, βIt is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.β