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Words are powerful - Thoughts shape - Ideas have consequences

Debra Rae

Author, "ABCs of Globalism"
Posted October 18, 2004

The Octopus Chronicles
Arm 8: Philosophical Reach of Globalism

Performer-author James Finn Garner retells classic bedtime tales as “handed down from one male-biased generation to the next”—this, purportedly to purge influences of “our flawed cultural past.” In his “first processed tree carcass” (book), published by a division of Macmillan, Inc., Garner speaks with tongue-in-cheek to expose sexism and discrimination that “demean witches, animals, goblins, and fairies everywhere.”

In the PC world of fairy tales, the three little pigs judiciously built their respective condos using materials that were indigenous to the area. Please note. The wolf in this story was a metaphorical construct. No actual wolves were harmed in its writing. Sadly, however, Snow White was an unwitting target for colorist thinking, and the defunct fairy godperson enabled Cinderella’s regrettable fashion compliance to male ideals of Barbi-doll feminine desirability. At one time, we all could get a chuckle out of such lunacy, but no more.

In today’s maturing New World Order, the serious business of postmodern political correctness defines the philosophical reach of the eighth and final arm of our global octopus. Adherents employ these three tactics to fix the PC grip: selective revision of history, use of epithets, and labeling opposing arguments as mere “anecdotal evidence.” Accordingly, independent thinkers are tagged racist, sexist, homophobic, and oppressive. Others are accused of preserving white, heterosexual male supremacy, not to mention slave-driving colonialism.

Spawned over the last few decades, the PC program specifically deconstructs European/ American culture in order to fashion and, then, clone a new American mind. Anything traditional is targeted. Judeo-Christian speech, for example, is just about the only form of speech banned in America today. This being the case, the church itself has fallen prey to the stranglehold of political correctness. In 1995, Oxford University Press published The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Version. In it, references to Christ’s being at the right hand of God have been omitted. Why? So as not to offend left-handed people!

In time, the conceptual straight jacket of political correctness has become the preeminent prerequisite to expediting government control over hiring, firing, and other business practices in today’s global economy. Already, the workforce development program of Goals 2000 is considering a national job registry whose computer database contains Myers-Briggs type indicators of the job candidate’s political and religious leanings.

Laden with laughable absurdities and ludicrous inconsistencies, politically correct thought acts as umbrella under which many postmodern “-isms” huddle. United causes include civil/gender/sexual orientation rights and radical environmentalism. Without fail, a decidedly political agenda supersedes all other considerations.

In previous commentaries, I have discussed the religious, environmental, and cultural reaches of globalism. Now, let’s examine radical genderism and Afrocentrism.

Postmodern Genderism
In 1981, The Nation published an article by activist Ellen Willis. In it, Willis unveiled the objective of every feminist reform from legal abortion-on-demand to child-care programs—that being, “to undermine traditional family values.” Falling right in line, another prominent feminist, an alleged intellectual, presumes to depict all heterosexual sex as “rape.” An international Bill of Rights for women, called the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, even encourages legalized voluntary prostitution.

So trivialized are the monogamous, heterosexual marriage and traditional family that the United States Census Bureau recently announced, for the first time ever, it will not collect data on marriage, divorce, and related matters. Why bother? To radical feminists (“selfists” at heart), personal autonomy becomes life’s greatest good—surpassing even love of God, country, spouse, and children. Family court stats prove it. In the words of Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, “It’s easier to get out of a marriage than a Tupperware contract.”

Postmodern Afrocentrism
A term new to many, Afrocentrism is the politically correct theme that applauds indiscriminately all that comes out of Africa all the while condemning Euro-American culture as inherently evil. Always at fault are white, heterosexual male supremacists and, of course, slave-driving colonialists. While political correctness denies the very existence of a moral law (right or wrong), it nonetheless morally obliges reparations from folks who never owned slaves to folks who never experienced slavery (and whose forefathers were freed from it by so-called white male supremacists, as Abraham Lincoln).

This hypocrisy is endless. Political correctness denounces harming Mother Earth as wrong; saving her, right. Sanctified sex is wrong; “safe sex,” right. Racism and sexism are wrong and tolerance, right. Ironically, rather than disregard skin color, the PC movement actually magnifies, divides, and awards privilege solely on the basis of skin color. Humorist Andy Rooney rightly challenges countering the United Negro College Fund and Miss Black America with an United Caucasian College Fund or Miss White America. See what feathers fly then! “When 70% of the people who get arrested are black in cities where 70% of the population is black,” Rooney reasons, “that is not racial profiling; it is the law of probability.”

Notwithstanding, Dr. James Dobson points out, rightly so, that “nothing short of a great Civil War of Values rages today throughout North America.” All too often, independent and traditional thinkers are being forced to wave the white flag of surrender to politically- correct, collective cosmic consciousness. Clearly, the philosophical arm of globalism is no laughing matter. In the raging war over ideas, the very heart and mind of America are at stake.

© Debra Rae 2004 Reprinted with Permission

Debra Rae received her Master of Education degree from the University of Washington, and her Bachelor of Theology Master of Ministries degrees from Pacific School of Theology. Her work spans pre-school through adult education, including teaching at the American School of Kuwait, during which time she tutored the daughter of Kuwait's Head of Parliament. After marrying Debra joined her husband in further exploration of Africa, Asia, East- and West- Europe, North- and South- Americas -- about 70,000 miles their first year of marriage! One trip featured a memorable jaunt on the elegant British Concorde. Her book, ABCs of Globalism has prompted numerous radio interviews aired across the nation, the Western Hemisphere, Russia, and the Middle East. And her latest, the ABC’s of Cultural-isms is its sequel.