Posts Tagged ‘American Zoo’

The title of this post is a quote from Perspectives of a Russian Immigrant (No. 5). She paints a picture not unlike “Animal Farm” by George Orwell.

The control of mediocrity over talent is the defining structure of these societies. There are political rules. If you conform, then you are living among equals. If you break the rules, then you suffer. If you are part of the ideological machine, you are a beneficiary of the system. That is why there are former citizens who have fond memories of the USSR.

Ms. Kunin then writes about the American Zoo.

Such ideological oppression is insidious, and we increasingly find it in America. Already, American parents are forced to send their children to failing schools. Americans will soon find the same to be true of their medical care. Political correctness limits their speech and corrupts their actions, as was on display in the Fort Hood attack.

How can correctness be political? If it is political, then it is an agenda.

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Soviet Union, Progressives, Animal Farm, American Zoo, Svetlana Kunin