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HelotPost Orwell: The Flight From Reason and Morality IntroductionPhilosophy is that part of the Humanities that tries to understandthe way men and women think. The discipline of Philosophy has been with us for centuries and its exponents or rather thinkers have comedown to us as the heroes of thought and intelligence. Aristotle, Plato,Epicurus, Zeno, Confucius, Bacon, Descartes, Kant, Butler, VonClauswitz, Avicenna, Aquinas, Goethe, Marx, Hegel to name but a few. These men are the sum of human thought and most in some way or other have helped Man to understand himself. Even Hitler in his MeinKampf, although unreadable, made his contribution to thought by presenting to the world the extremity of human ideology. The same canbe said for Marx and Engels and especially the first can be said to be thefather of modern neo Liberalism that now strides the world. Today we have the post Marxian Gramscian philosophy of ‘political correctness’ that tries to alter the not only the way we view eachother and ourselves but how we speak as well. No other philosophy asfar as I can see has ever attempted to do this on such a global scale. Theonly trouble is that political correctness is not a traditional philosophy assuch but an ideological weapon used by an elite determined to destroy everything we stand for in its quest for world domination.One would not mind if those who try to impose this ideology onthe rest of us were doing it in pursuit of human happiness as all otherphilosophies have tried to do in some form or other but it does not.Indeed it does the very opposite and causes deep discontent andresentment to its victims and appears to the author at least, as being every bit as totalitarian and unpleasant as Nazism and Soviet Marxismonce did.In fact there never has been such been such an unpleasantideology, since it not only strikes at our very humanity but eliminates the very qualities that make us the reasoning moral conscientious being weare. The philosophy of ‘PC’ is actually a form of ontological nihilism thatundermines by deconstructing the very humanity and thought that formthe context of our very existence. It is actually an annihilation of self and

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what remains is but a paradoxical parody or Reality. I have thereforecalled it Paradolological Nihilism.Now before the reader runs away from this neologism in horrorlet me explain my reasoning. Political Correctness tries to level theplaying field between those less fortunate in society and the moresuccessful sections of it. However, in doing so it actually undermines notonly the difference between the inferior and the superior form as isintended but in effect does away with difference altogether by eliminating both. If one eliminates the subject in a sentence there can beno object: no object no subject: no subject no object. This is basicgrammar.Let me explain: if I state that Beethoven is superior to a childbanging on a drum, most people would agree with me because everybody knows that Beethoven was perhaps the most accomplished composer of all time in Classical music. This is not only common knowledge but alsocommon sense. Beethoven structural musical brilliance is a byword forgenius. However what happens when somebody comes along and arguesthat Mozart is a better composer and more sophisticated? Most people of good intelligence would be able to understand why such a stance couldbe true since, Mozart was a teacher of Beethoven and is equally famous.So the two different opinions can stand and the opposites can agree todisagree. We could describe this as a superiority of equals.Civilisation is constructed out of such disagreements. It is onereason why we are civilized men and why academics like me do as we do.Both Mozart and Beethoven are musical pillars upon which we constructthe very socio-cultural milieu of our society and western culture. Thenatural conclusion is therefore that both musicians are great in their ownright and exist because of that innate talent and greatness in themselves.However, the child who was banging the drum comes along and will have none of it! ‘I am a great composer too and equal to stuffy grown ups like Mozart and Beethoven!’ he says. Of course his parentsdisagree and tell him so. He argues and is sent to bed. However the childis precocious and finds a lawyer to take the matter for him to court. The Judge sympathetic to the child, issues a ruling that his drum playing isequal to Beethoven and Mozart.Of course the musical world is in uproar. The judge does not likethis at all. He feels the child should have its way no matter what, so heinstructs the local police to make a few arrests as an example and lock thedissidents up in jail. The rest of the academic world is appalled at this

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legalistic behaviour over a spoilt child. The judge orders more arrests andsoon the prisons are full of dissenting academics. The child goes back to its parents and they tell him he has been anaughty boy and send him back to his room. The little boy sneaks outhowever and telephones his friend the judge, who immediately orders thearrest of the parents and confinement to prison as well. However thefriends of the parents march to the court and demand their release. Thejudge orders the police to arrest these too and imprison them. The localpolice object to this as they realize that social unrest is a real possibility inthe face of such action. The judge acts quickly and sacks the police chief,to be replaced by a friend of his who shares similar views to him, inrespect of the drum-playing child. The papers and television get hold of it and soon headlines reportacross the country, ‘Hundreds locked up because they do not agree that Willy the Drum-Banger is the Equal of Beethoven.’ Many take to thestreets in protest at this appalling travesty of justice and demand theimmediate release of all the academics, parents and friends who havebeen jailed. However it doesn’t end there.Other groups seeing a chance to get back at the politicalEstablishment, take up the cause of the little boy and his drum as theircause-celebre. Soon hundreds are marching in the street with placardsdemanding that the boy’s drum banging is the equal of Beethoven. Many more thousands carry placards saying it’s a load of nonsense caused by afascist judge. The Judge goes ape and orders his police chief to round upall the dissenters. Finally the army is brought in to quell the disorder. The dissent is silenced and it is law that the little boy and hisdrum banging are equal to Beethoven. People though are far from happy but keep quiet, as they know what will happen to them. In schools it isnow taught nation wide that Beethoven is only as good as the little boy and his drum. He is feted by the Establishment as a ‘People’s Hero andhe gives performance after performance before enthusiastic audiences,made up of the Judge and his friends. They clap and clap in admiration asthe boy bangs away. Papers are full of glowing critics’ reports. It is calledthe New Drum Music. It is avant guard and all the rage. The intellectualelite fall over themselves to find words and neologisms to describe thenew art.‘Post Classical Cacophonism’ is the new name given to this new musical form. Soon there are thousands of imitators and eventually Beethoven is lambasted as the remnants of a bygone age. He is described