The Ideology of Failure
Author: Stephen Pax Leonard
Category: Other2
Published: 2018
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Read OnlineWe are living in unnerving
times. Our societies are characterised by a social polarisation not
known since the 1930s. At the same time, there is now one principal
source of knowledge: Google, an omnipresent, omniscient (some might
say) company embedded in the social justice warrior ideology. Just a
handful of Californian companies control our digital lives. These
companies and most public institutions employ the same commoditised
speech code (diversity, inclusion etc.) that operates in a context of
groupthink enforcing further the sense of polarisation.
Language is being increasingly policed and causing
offence could now be a hate-crime in parts of western Europe. Amidst
such infringements on the freedom of speech, a culture of silence is
emerging. This can be seen in our universities. They should be
theatres of open debate, but instead many shun viewpoint diversity.
But, the toxic, zero-sum identity politics that currently plagues
academia is spreading now to society at large.
This book explores the nuts and bolts of this
identity politics that is weakening and dividing our Continent. The
Ideology of Failure asks the most searching questions of the
political correctness orthodoxy and gives the reader the tools to
talk openly about the topics which we are made to feel awkward about
discussing.
times. Our societies are characterised by a social polarisation not
known since the 1930s. At the same time, there is now one principal
source of knowledge: Google, an omnipresent, omniscient (some might
say) company embedded in the social justice warrior ideology. Just a
handful of Californian companies control our digital lives. These
companies and most public institutions employ the same commoditised
speech code (diversity, inclusion etc.) that operates in a context of
groupthink enforcing further the sense of polarisation.
Language is being increasingly policed and causing
offence could now be a hate-crime in parts of western Europe. Amidst
such infringements on the freedom of speech, a culture of silence is
emerging. This can be seen in our universities. They should be
theatres of open debate, but instead many shun viewpoint diversity.
But, the toxic, zero-sum identity politics that currently plagues
academia is spreading now to society at large.
This book explores the nuts and bolts of this
identity politics that is weakening and dividing our Continent. The
Ideology of Failure asks the most searching questions of the
political correctness orthodoxy and gives the reader the tools to
talk openly about the topics which we are made to feel awkward about
discussing.