political correctness 1

By Steve

Fri, 14 Nov 2014
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i keep on revisiting these absolute signifiers cause i'm just a grammatical aside. p.c. or political correctness is extending its tentacles everywhere. it has literally become an octopus.

p.c. is very unfair toward the workingclass. p.c. hates sarcasm. but doesn't mind condescension. we are quickly becoming a classist society. i don't mind class. i like british manners. but i really have to wonder if there is anything essential or real about america or do we simply absorb from other cultures.

p.c. has become a funny thing. have we really gone beyond race and class and can we all really be made white? by white, i mean an aproportioning process of moderation that makes a person a polyglot of emotions, thoughts, etc.

it is somewhat of an existential dilemna... do we create others in our own image? how do we deal with the other? 

it gets me thinking about foucault. it is time to bring back public blindings. pluck out the fascist eye in public so that all may see. so i suppose the athletes will go first.

we can all wear blinfolds. everyone is beautiful so why look?

i've observed people at elite private schools and it's back to beaver cleaver days. smile in the hallways. p.c. is really miraculously powerful. This monster of medicocrity, blowing grades way up high, making people feel so good about themselves. no ugliness, just differently beautiful, then why are they ignored? Not stupid, but differently enabled. Why change? Just be yourself. Life is perfect as is. God is the absolute present moment.

what's amazing is how bourgeoise people are, chatting about nothingness. Nothingness is the new absolute signifier. The disembodied signifier and the absent signifier went out on a date and became immortal. Nothingness. Who can argue against nothingness?

There is no truth, just opinions. If your father dies of cancer, is that just a fucking opinion? People live in a vaccum of pleasure and grieve in private. There are no rituals anymore or the rituals have become a form of satire. only comedy is triumphant.

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Submitted by VeraClark on

Not sure about nothingness - surely it's a preconceived stereotype about what  'an other'  (petit bourgeoise ) thinks and speaks of. Who validates that it is what it is?  

 

Submitted by Steve on

Well, Vera, as usual, your questions are very thought provoking. I think it is nothingness or meaninglessness.

By absent signifier, I mean something outside or after the text that gives meaning to the text. The disembodied signifier is within the text and carries the meaning of the text as a mask. When the absent and disembodied signifier become one, then an absolute signifier is created. When there is no meaning, the value of the absolute signifier is nothingness. The absent signifier in political correctness is God. The disembodied signifiers are the academics who find meaning or value in p.c. and when the disembodied signifiers and God agree, you get the absolute signifier who is "nothingness" to me. 

I mean, when i go into real life, I really want to just go to a place that is silent and holy like a church or something. People chat endlessly about their petty little lives and about the same things and they are either asking their neighbors or me to find meaning in it. I'm sure there is meaning in it, but I can't find it. everyday life is meaningful, but it just annoys the hell out of me... the petty, little false rumors, the small, white lies... etc. People are so into security and protecting their reputations while they break all the moral laws under heaven and earth.

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

Always feel that where there's paradigmatic analysis, particularly socially, we follow the binary them and us, then claim that them or the other, however they're perceived, have no value.It just feels an extension of binary opposition and far too simplistic. Troubles me how these ways of seeing influence us all. Very interested in semiology.Read with interest, Steve.

 

Submitted by Steve on

Semiotics is also an attempt to destroy the binary system of thought and create structural unity. Living in America, I find that I have to simplify. I have the famous writing from Thoreau always in front of me, "I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life." Unfortunately, I ended up living like a bohemian.

I don't know. I almost have a military mind. I think the military was a logical unit that preceded logic.