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NeilBru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I see your point. I should’ve limited my citation to the phrase’s authoritarian origins from the early 20th century.

To clarify, the slippery slope towards “political correctness” I am wanted to describe is a sort of corporate techno-feudalist language bereft of any real political philosophy or moral epistemology. It is the language of LinkedIn, the “angel investor class”, financiers, cavalier buzzwords, sweeping overgeneralizations, and hyperbole. Yet, fundamentally, it will aim to erase any class awareness, empiricism, or contempt for arbitrary authority. The idea is to impose an avaricious might-makes-right for whatever-we-believe-right-now way of thinking in every human being.

What I want to convey is that there is an unspoken effort by authoritarians of the so-called “left” and “right” who unapologetically yearn for the hybridization of both Huxley’s A Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 dystopian models, sometimes loudly proclaimed and other times subconsciously suggested.

These are my opinions and not meant as gospel.

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