From: lord-ex@chop.com   
      
   'Across much of Britain's public discourse, a reliance   
   on reason has been replaced with a reliance on the   
   emotional appeal of an argument. Parallel to the once-trusted   
   world of empiricism and deductive reasoning, an   
   often overwhelmingly powerful emotional landscape has   
   been created, rewarding people with feelings of virtue for   
   some beliefs, or punishing with feelings of guilt for others.   
   It is a belief system that echoes religion in providing   
   ready, emotionally satisfying answers for a world too   
   complex to understand fully, and providing a gratifying   
   sense of righteousness absent in our otherwise secular   
   society.   
   The result is that public figures sanctified as being   
   politically correct (the high priests of PC, such as Michael   
   Moore) are listened to with reverence on any potentially   
   controversial issue, safe in the knowledge that even if   
   what they say suffers the insignificant drawback of being   
   wrong, it will at least enjoy the far for important benefit of   
   being PC.   
   The politically incorrect arguments aren't engaged   
   with; they are just stated in a way that everyone will   
   understand means it is unacceptable because it is not PC.'   
      
   From: 'The Retreat From Reason:   
   Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain'   
   by Anthony Browne   
      
   C/O ROBBIE   
      
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