Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Rodents and Girls Under 8: The Soft Totalitarianism of Political Correctness


Peter Thiel, October 2011
“Modern Western civilization stands on the twin plinths of science and technology. Taken together, these two interrelated domains reassure us that the 19th-century story of never-ending progress remains intact. Without them, the arguments that we are undergoing cultural decay — ranging from the collapse of art and literature after 1945 to the soft totalitarianism of political correctness in media and academia to the sordid worlds of reality television and popular entertainment — would gather far more force....”

“It was offensive to people who haven’t turned eight.”  

Artist: Bruce Eric Kaplan, The New Yorker, June 2015

Artist: Harry Bliss


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