On Cancel Culture. From Judging to Lynching: Repressions and Discriminations in the Name of Morality
The machine of political correctness is a kind of headless monster, devoid of great exponents such as Einstein or Russell for pacifism or Simone de Beauvoir or Susan Sontag for feminism. The concerted action of various bureaucracies, it needs a new scapegoat every day: yesterday the prince’s kiss to Snow White, today the wishes for a Merry Christmas, tomorrow something else unpredictable. Each brick of this Chinese wall of interdictions may appear absurd and arbitrary, but the important thing is to feed it continuously. The result is a psychology and anthropology of blaming: the greatest intellectual effort is the mutual control and comfort that comes from belonging to a group endowed with moral superiority. The concept of “fake purification” elaborated by Simone Weil proves to be very suitable to explain many follies coming (above all) from the Anglo-Saxon world and to highlight the enormous spiuritual damage that can derive from this interminable “process of the past”.