From Martry Made podcast God’s Socialist pt 5 1:30:01
Totalitarian systems work to break up any relationship not
mediated by the system, so they undermine connections outside and independent
from the system. The goal is to get their subjects to say and do things to
compromise themselves and create a system that Marshal Mcluhan described as a
whispering gallery. Everyone is engaged in keeping everyone else under
surveillance. We’re compromised everytime we nod our heads to something we don’t
believe to be true. Every time it happens we lose the strength to refuse the
next time.
Theodore Dalrymple -
“Political correctness is
communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to
the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or
convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it
corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent
when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are
forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of
probity (having strong moral principles). To assent to obvious lies is in some
small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus
eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.
I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is
intended to.”
A totalitarian system builds up a weak social imaginary that
can’t survive contact with the outside world.
