| re: The Life...and the Death of Encores | |
| Posted by: keikekaze 07:10 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
| In reply to: re: The Life...and the Death of Encores - KingSpeed 05:17 pm EDT 03/19/22 | |
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| Political correctness is a good thing only insofar as it is synonymous with plain old-fashioned politeness, good manners, respect for others, and common decency. But people who have been taught politeness, good manners, etc., don't need p.c., because for them it's simply redundant: Of course one calls people by the name that they want to be called by, one cares about others, one respects their rights and their personal independence, and so on. It seems that most often in actual practice, however, p.c. is taken by the untaught to be the blueprint or automatic plug-in for how wise people behave. Behavior, if it is to be deemed acceptable, must be made to conform to the blueprint. What the untaught don't understand is that there is no blueprint to wise behavior. Wise people judge every individual case on its own individual merits, considering the specific causes, context, and consequences of the matter. This applies to real life and also to the worlds of fiction and the other arts. One size does not necessarily fit all. P.c. becomes a positive evil when it is used as a gag or a club--as a means of censorship or of beating people with opposing viewpoints into submission or silence. That is a bad thing. And coming back to The Life, no arts organization has any business whatsoever systematically rewriting anything. No one is forcing Encores, or anybody else, to revive anything they don't think is worthy. If you don't like the play you're reviving, don't revive it. If you don't like what the play is saying and want it to say something else, then write your own goddamned play. Leave other people's work the hell alone and write your own damned play. Of course, it's always so much easier to deface somebody else's work than to create your own that I won't be holding my breath waiting for all this bowdlerization to stop. |
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