vegetariantaxidermy wrote:Greta wrote:I think you might need a new term because "PC" is never, ever applied to the right, even though they are the main perps, as you noted. And yes, this is all about power and control - 100%.
It's impossible to have a sensible public dialogue on any contentious topic in today's overheated political climate. It's no longer possible to get people to "listen to reason" or give a damn about hard evidence, if that was ever possible. It's as though the entire public conversation is taking place in a society-sized courtroom, with each side playing the role of a manipulative lawyers whose goal is to win, not to uncover the truth.
I know it's always applied to the 'right', which is exactly the problem. It's actually neither 'right' not 'left'. It has aspects of both, but it still hates the truth just like every other self-serving agenda-driven twit. It's not me that needs a new term.
I was pointing out the inherent double standards in the way the term "political correctness" is applied, but never mind.
Whatever, unlike most here, I don't think that everything is awful and that the Earth is doomed due to the misbehaviour of an aberrant species. I think everything is probably ticking along just fine with the Earth, and that most of us will be superseded as were the dinosaurs.
The Earth does that occasionally. A threshold is reached, everything breaks down, and then there are new emergences, albeit with modern DNA (and ever more interesting historical excavations). Sometimes extinctions are triggered by space, sometimes by geology, sometimes by biology, or some combination.
I once thought a major extinction event would be preventable but population and conflicts of interest ensure that it will be utter carnage. I can imagine tribes emerging from the ruins and rubble, looking up wistfully at untouchable ivory towers in the robot-protected compounds that house and protect the privileged, and then they'll fight and kill each other about who's sleeping with whom