ABSTRACT
The introduction advances the following theses: PC is like a double-edged sword that cuts only one way: the wrong one. PC currently permeates all aspects of both the public and the private sphere in many countries, and it is running amok. A moral and rational person may be favorably disposed toward some of the values and premises that inform PC, but in disagreement with its discourse and with all the tactics and practices its dogmatic adherents adopt. PC is a no-win situation for both the Right and the Left, but mostly for the latter, as it rarely accomplishes anything substantial regarding the betterment of the material conditions under which the underprivileged exist, which is what the Left theoretically strives for. Just like the gravity of a literal black hole distorts the fabric of space-time, PC is a sociocultural black hole that warps people’s truth-seeking processes and moral radars. This chapter also outlines the metaethical, metaepistemological, and pessimistic theoretical constructs underpinning this study, and it identifies three novel perspectives this work offers: exploring the rise of PC in Greece from scratch, connecting PC with larger issues (such as hypocrisy or the new media’s growing cult of willful ignorance), and utilizing humor.
