Mary Cassatt. Young Mother and Two Children (1905)
I’ve added another mother-child painting by Mary Cassatt to accompany my post today because I find her work so beautiful and inspirational. It also serve to remind us that this is the most basic of all human relationships. Without healthy family bonds — cultivated through the mother-child bond — a lot goes haywire in the world around us. With family breakdown we get community breakdown. And now we’re dealing with whole scale communication breakdown.
This post is a re-cap of several pieces I wrote this week on how to break the PC-cultivated spiral of silence. Isn’t it crazy how much we are expected to police our speech — and therefore our thoughts — in everyday life? One example is how the media schools us in how to use pronouns, assuming we are all draftees into its scam of transgenderism. We also read about how millennials on college campuses have developed such delicate sensitivities to any non-PC expression that they get “triggered” into emotional meltdowns. As we walk among the eggshells, we can all use a few pointers in navigation.
I’ve been trying to provide a little bit of a primer this week in my five-part series at the British web magazine The Conservative Woman. We can not address the breakdown in communication until we understand the root causes of it.
On Monday I wrote about how little we seem to be aware of the power of traditional mothers. Through their work behind the scenes they have the power to put communities of goodwill into motion: “Traditional Mothers are the True Subversives: That’s Why the State Wants to Gag Them.”
Tuesday’s headline was: “PC Propaganda is intended to Divide and Rule.” The one critical fact to remember about political correctness is that separates people. The intended effect is to prevent you from having personal relationships and personal conversations that could get in the way of a PC agenda. In fact people are excessively policing their own speech when talking to folks who could be their friends: neighbors, co-workers, classmates. We need to push back hard against this sort of meddling.
On Wednesday I wrote “Fear Powers the PC Machine.” Hollywood, Academia and the Media fuel it. It’s so important to become self-aware, and recognize our weaknesses as human beings. Our fear is ultimately about being separated from others if we step out of line. How ironic then, that we actually perpetuate this cycle by feeding the PC Machine with our fear — separating ourselves even more from others.
Today’s headline is: “Only Connect to Fight Back Against the PC Tyranny.” This means, basically, what we must do in order to help unravel the tyranny is create the ripple effects of trust and openness in your daily life by connecting one on one with others. Trust and friendship have a powerful effect in a age that’s becoming increasingly devoid of those things. Friendship, in fact, is inextricably linked with freedom.
Tomorrow’s post will include a few rules of engagement as we go about breaking the ice with our neighbors, co-workers, and others we meet in daily life. I hope you’ll check www.conservativewoman.co.uk to read up. It’s critical that we engage.