When there is a passionate, intellectual search, indeed obsession, for truth...
Then the issue of conformity vs. nonconformity becomes irrelevant,
A needless sideshow amongst partisans of this side or that...
Unless the conformity -- or the nonconformity -- involved is hiding the truth...
Similarly with political correctness and incorrectness...
Both can be hiding the truth of oppression...
And/or the truth of narcissistic extremism and lack of integrity...
The party that is in power vs. the party that is not...
And, for both sides, towing the party line...
The best case scenario is when both sides are searching for the truth,
The second best -- and second worst -- case scenario,
Is when one side is searching for the truth...
Usually that 'one-sided search for truth' comes from the side that is not in power,
Because the side in power is hiding something that is 'narcissistically pleasurable, convenient or beneficial' ...
But democratically out of line..
Not ethically or morally or legally right....
But they can get away with it because they are the side in power...
The side with the hand in the til...
The side with the inside knowledge
That could be detrimental to their staying in power...
Meanwhile, the side not in power can usually 'sense' that something is not right...
Or even know that something is not right...
And choose to do something about it...
Or not...
He/she/they can 'let it slide' because they don't have enough power...
Don't think that they have enough power...
Or have become too passively and apathetically 'used to things not being right'...
Corruption, political and/or corporate greed and overspending,
An 'unpleasant truth' that one or both sides 'keep burying under the carpet'...
And/or keep 'sweeping into the closet'...
Lost in silence, distortion, illusion, ideology, abstraction, myth...
Whatever hides the truth...
Freud saw this in individual clients and called it 'repression'....
The repression hides the truth...
While the 'neurotic and/or pathological symptomatology'...
Alludes to the truth...
On a larger level, I call it social, family, political, corporate, legal, cultural, and/or historical repression...
'Political correctness' is, or can be, a form of political, legal, and social repression...
Hiding oppression...and the intellect, the passion, the courage, the will, the perseverance...
To undo the oppression...
In the same way that non-stopped 'stereotyping' and 'discrimination' can do the same...
Political correctness can hide either underlying partisan narcissism...
Or even reverse discrimination...and social pampering...
The saddest, most tragic thing of all, is when everyone is so intimidated...
That no one is left to challenge the pathological boundaries of political correctness...
Or political incorrectness....
Conformity or non-conformity...
No one is left to search and obsess for truth...
To undo the repression...
The suppression...
And the oppression...
That leaves us all at least partly guilty...
For turning a blind eye to the oppression...
And above the oppression...
To whatever is hiding the truth...
-- dgb, March 20th, 2010,
-- David Gordon Bain,
-- Dialectic Gap-Bridging Negotiations...
-- Are Still In Process..
