In the 1950’s the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung wrote a slim volume entitled The Undiscovered Self. At some point I want to delve into it. But for today, please consider this excerpt:
“It is the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. . . . The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa.
I’m convinced that power elites use political correctness as a means of separating people. It causes "psychic isolation of the individual," which serves to divide and conquer. People become more and more polarized politically when they are unable to express what they believe and how they feel to others. PC squashes mutual understanding. That's what it's for. If you think it through, I think you'll also come to realize that civil discourse is the biggest impediment to centralized power. How so? When people fear expressing their innermost thoughts to others, friendships cannot develop. Personal associations are nipped in the bud. And when friendships in society are minimized, people become less trustful of others. They become more isolated and atomized, more dependent upon the "mass State" Jung refers to. Political correctness only serves the consolidation of central power. Nothing and nobody else.
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