Politically Incorrect

Remember the kid who used to plug his ears with his fingers while loudly singing "The Star Spangled Banner," so that he couldn't hear what was being said? The contemporary name for this same behavior is called Politically Correct. We used to laugh at the kid on the playground who pulled this stunt; today, we are expected to kowtow to the PC bullies who extol it.

This behavior trait lies alongside the same gene that renders victims vulnerable to The Emperor With No Clothes condition and the Ostrich With His Head in the Sand syndrome. These disorders primarily afflict Sheeple, (people who ludicrously behave like sheep), which accounts for probably eighty percent of every population at any given time.

It's one of those "chicken or egg," arguments. Did people devolve into this behavior because of environmental conditions—lead in the water, radioactivity in the atmosphere—or is it a genetic deficiency only curable by proper blood testing prior to breeding.

Whatever the cause, the result is always the same: a substantial percentage of any given population is afraid to tell the truth. Rarely do these fears involve fear for life or physical safety which is what makes the condition so absurd. There is nothing more ludicrous than a member of Homo sapiens afraid to stand up on his hind legs to utter truth without regard to what other Sheeple have to say about it.

To the contrary, that person in a hundred willing to state the obvious will be persecuted by Sheeple mobs because his courage makes them look as impotent and silly as they are in actuality.

I'm for funding a new research project to locate the gene for Politically Correct, and to find a method to modify it genetically. We need MORE truth in our culture—not less—regardless of who or what is embarrassed by those truths.

The next genetic project should be to help those who are reality-challenged to develop thicker hides (or a spine) so that truth can become more palatable to them. I would suggest that a large pool of subjects from which to draw for these experiments would be the Yahoo! News comments editors.