[ExI] Political correctness consequences

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Wed Aug 3 22:12:00 UTC 2016


What periods or places have shown ideological diversity among elites?

Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University


I really hope someone will answer this. If 'elites' mean those in
power, then I'd guess none and no place unless you count multiple
political parties.  Too much suppression of dissent in history.

  bill w


On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 3:18 AM, Anders <anders at aleph.se> wrote:

> On 2016-08-03 08:01, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> Since the factual claims of political correctness are often actually
> incorrect, and the norms are often odious to most reasonable people,
> political correctness is potentially harmful. Since it was accepted by
> power elites worldwide, the harms are in fact widespread and hard to escape
> from.
>
>
> Note that this has nearly always been the case: when an ideological
> orthodoxy becomes entrenched, it seldom becomes entrenched because it is
> true but because of other appeals or practical reasons. The harmful
> intellectual effects are the same. (Ob ref: Hayek, "The Intellectuals and
> Socialism")
>
> Lack of ideological diversity among elites, the almost complete takeover
> of positions of power by politically correct cadres in a number of
> countries, is therefore a major flaw of the current global political system.
>
>
> What periods or places have shown ideological diversity among elites?
>
>
> --
> Dr Anders Sandberg
> Future of Humanity Institute
> Oxford Martin School
> Oxford University
>
>
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