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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saskwhite" data-source="post: 3192005" data-attributes="member: 12925"><p>This is not a matter of government, or the UK specifically. This is a cultural problem within the western world. There has been a paradigm shift in the thinking since the turn of the twentieth century, and much of this has to do with the loss of religion in my opinion. Nietzsche said that God is dead and that we have killed him. This still rings true today, and people have begun to worship themselves, ideologies, celebrities, among other things. The government has less control over things than people think, especially in a capitalist free market system. It is not the government that changes the culture, but the social figures: professors, teachers, celebrities etc. In my opinion the ideas of the government are the product of the culture: for example, Canada is much more left leaning than America, and that is not the fault of the government but of the culture. Governments are trying to appeal to the mass ideology in the populace to win the election, they do not create the culture. Thus, the universities are the main sources of culture. This political correctness comes from the Frankfurt school in the 30's who believed in a victim complex, as well as believing that all hierarchies are based on control of power not on merit or skill like much of them should be. It has taken almost 70 years for the ideas of these thinkers to trickle down to the mass, and it will be the universities where either political correctness or free speech will be the highest values held. Already at Wilfred Laurier university in Canada there was a major scandal of professors restricting free speech of a teaching assistant in the name of political correctness. If one cannot speak their mind, then what is the point of having a mind. The world on its current path is not one I would like to live in in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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