ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explores the emotional processes, showing how they differ from the forces that have created organization. He shows that the way in which the destructive elements play out in a syndrome he call organizational self-destruction, whose dimensions include the undermining of organizational structure, meaning, motivation, and, ultimately, language itself. The danger of political correctness, then, is that the dynamics that underlie it incorporate organizational self-destruction into the organization’s core processes. Organizational participants generally grant the legitimacy of the organization’s structure as part of their objective self-consciousness, and agree to be bound by it in their activity within the organization. Political correctness means the death of language in the sense that the exchange character of language is lost. In political correctness, meanings become not only inchoate, but positively frightening, since they stand in opposition to what we are obliged to say, under threat of severe sanction.
