“If people can’t control their own emotions, then they must start controlling other people’s behavior,” John Cleese reiterated, while quoting co-author and psychiatrist Robin Skynner, of the book Families and How to Survive Them.
He said that he has been warned not to go to most University campuses because of the hypersensitivity that political correctness has instilled in the population. “The whole point about comedy is that all comedy is critical, even if you make an inclusive joke, like…’How’d you make God laugh?’ ‘Tell Him your plans’.” That’s an inclusive joke about all humanity, yet Cleese points out that all humor is critical and this PC generation is overly sensitive to anything that creates a negative emotional experience.
“If one cannot use humor,” Cleese says, “There goes a sense of proportion and as far as I’m concerned you’re living in 1984.”
That has been the plan all along, which is why they pushed so hard for politician correctness to be the “beacon” of what to promote.
Couldn’t agree more.