Political Correctness is Reducing All Genius Level Thinkers Into Silence - How Pathetic!

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lance_Winslow]Lance Winslow

As many of you know, I run a think tank, and there's nothing too spectacular about that considering there must be some 500 think tanks around the world, and someone has to run each one of them. However, there is something I've noticed within our think tank, and that is if we let too many politically correct individuals into our groups, at whatever level. And, we have a significant problem because they disallow folks to speak their mind, otherwise they chastise for using improper politically correct phrases, thus, no one listens to their brilliance, and eventually they stop talking.

The reality is with all brilliance comes with some baggage, and we as a society and civilization have to deal with that if we wish to come up with the best solutions, as inevitably they will come from someone who thinks slightly differently than the rest of us. However, if we reduce all geniuses and genius Level thinking into silence, making it very hard to express themselves without making a small verbal slip of political correctness, that we defeat the purpose of thinking at all.

But personally, I think we are doing the same thing in our schools, and yes we expect all of our children to do rote memorization, and we call that learning, really, and why bother memorizing any of that stuff, it's all on Google. Kids are not stupid, they know where to find information, and asking them for the information and testing them on it doesn't make much sense, unless you make it open-book test and allow them to ask their personal tech device to go online and put the answer in the right column, or check out the right multiple choice answer.

Still, if we allow them to use the Internet to find all the answers, that is to okay, but it still just teaches them to give us the answers we are looking for, and to use a search engine by typing the right Question into a little box, and yes, it is important to ask the right questions, but is that really teaching them to think?

And we either use rote memorization and try to catch them for cheating or we have them go find the right answer and put it into a space, all so they can get a grade and go home for the end of the day. How does this help learning - how does this teach people to think. Now then, I use this example because I have been absolutely adamant in chastising The World Future Society, yes, I admit it, I am a member. It seems that many people in The World Future Society are extremely leaning left in their political thinking, almost to the point that I could call them straight out socialists.

And here we have the problem again, if everyone has to think the same, in the same politically correct motive, to be in that group, then there is no out-of-the-box thinking, all they've done is expanded the box, made more rules, and silenced the true geniuses within their group, if there are any, which I really haven't found any, though, I'll admit there are a couple, who do hang around that grouping of futurists.

But I would suspect most of the real geniuses, well they are merely a member of the group to soak up information, and because it may be one of the only group that stands for forward thinking, and innovating towards our future. Even if the resultant is nothing to write home about.

Personally, I refuse to be drown in political correctness, I am a genius, and I'm not afraid to say it. And I refuse to be silenced, and maybe you can tell by my almost 21,000 articles online. What have you written today? Do you have a single original thought? Well if you do, I'd sure like to talk to you, and let's skip the political correctness, we don't do that in our think tank.

Lance Winslow is the Founder of the Online Think Tank, a diverse group of achievers, experts, innovators, entrepreneurs, thinkers, futurists, academics, dreamers, leaders, and general all around brilliant minds. Lance Winslow hopes you've enjoyed today's discussion and topic. http://www.WorldThinkTank.net - Have an important subject to discuss, contact Lance Winslow.

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