Why Doris Lessing deserves a Nobel

I think these thoughts are part of what blogging is all about:

Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The trouble is that, with all popular movements, the lunatic fringe so quickly ceases to be a fringe; the tail begins to wag the dog. For every woman or man who is quietly and sensibly using the idea to examine our assumptions, there are 20 rabble-rousers whose real motive is desire for power over others, no less rabble-rousers because they see themselves as anti-racists or feminists or whatever...

Earlier in the article:

A very common way of thinking in literary criticism is not seen as a consequence of Communism, but it is...

And these are the first two sentence of the 1992 article:

WHILE we have seen the apparent death of Communism, ways of thinking that were either born under Communism or strengthened by Communism still govern our lives. Not all of them are as immediately evident as a legacy of Communism as political correctness...

The prize biography is here.

Mark C.

Posted by markc at October 15, 2007 04:47 PM