most of us on here come across as complete fucking psychopaths based on our posts.
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Political correctness conquers the universe.In other words, imagine the movie P.C.U. (or better yet, rent it and watch it, it rules) only taken to a much worse extreme.George Orwell's 1984 might not be quite as much fun as P.C.U. (although the Eurythmics rock the movie soundtrack) but it's in many ways the original template for political correctness with its newspeak and use of language to sanitize everything. It's not, however, such a great example of what we currently mean by political correctness, since the oppressive super-state doesn't display much concern about offending minorities or oppressed groups.Instead, we should look to Kurt Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, about a future dystopia where everybody has to be "average," and if you have any special abilities, you have to suppress them. Are you smarter or more beautiful than other people? The state will use special devices to remove those advantages, so everyone's equal. It's been a TV movie and it's soon to be a major motion picture, 2081.A similar take on an egalitarian dystopia is Facial Justice by famous literary author L.P. Hartley, in which the women of a post-apocalyptic world are encouraged to get a standardized "beta face" so they'll all be equally beautiful. "Go Beta and you won't have to beautify!" the state says.Similarly, Rob Grant wrote a novel called Incompetence, which takes place in a future United States Of Europe where you're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of ability — at all. You have to hire people to do jobs they're not capable of doing, because otherwise you're discriminating. There's also a take-off of Brave New World called Fair New World, in which feminism and super-carefulness are crushing the human spirit.And then there's The Alphabet Challenge by Russian émigré Olga Gardner Galvin, which is set decades in America's future, when political correctness has taken over. At one point, Howell Langston Toland's business gets vandalized, and he calls the authorities:He heard a prerecorded message. “If you have a complaint about PeopleCare’s actions, press 1. — If your place of business was rendered unusable by our activists, press 2. — If you plan to file charges, we’d like to inform you that your place of business had been found in violation of a number of the New York City office regulations and/or zoning laws. You are free to file charges, but we’ll be forced to file countercharges. We have a full list of your violations on file. If you want to know what violations, press 3. — If you have any other questions, please stay on the line.”Howell stayed on the line. A polite young lady looked up the name of his business and the date it was trashed and confirmed that it had indeed been found in violation of several regulations, among them lack of shutters to block out sunlight to accommodate UV-sensitive customers. She also advised Howell that penalties for vandalism were much lighter than for violation of the New York City office regulations and/or zoning laws. Somehow, Howell believed her.But he later gets his own back, by starting a movement that claims people whose names begin with letters later in the alphabet are victims of terrible discrimination, which the state should remedy.There's also Liberality For All, the recent comic-book series, where among other things a new set of "Coulter Laws" ban hate speech.
But he later gets his own back, by starting a movement that claims people whose names begin with letters later in the alphabet are victims of terrible discrimination, which the state should remedy.
George Orwell's 1984 might not be quite as much fun as P.C.U. (although the Eurythmics rock the movie soundtrack) but it's in many ways the original template for political correctness with its newspeak and use of language to sanitize everything.
