OVERTON WINDOWS AND DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES: Tell Your Son (HUMAN DOMINANCE AND HOW TO GET TO THE TOP (Tell Your Son))

“Insanity in individuals is rare, but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs
it is the rule.”
In every society there is an Overton Window; a limited range of ideas that are
acceptable to hold and express Ideas inside the Overton Window are politically correct, ideas outside the
Overton Window are politically incorrect.
In any society, the expression of politically incorrect ideas leads to one being
punished.
What varies from one society to another is not the existence of an Overton
Window (in every society, some ideas are considered acceptable to express
while others are unacceptable to express), but rather which ideas are inside the
Overton Window and which ideas are outside the Overton Window.
What is considered politically correct in one society may be politically incorrect in
another, and vice versa.
Societies also vary in how harshly they punish those who express ideas they
consider politically incorrect.
Many Rightwing Americans bemoan the existence of political correctness, and
think it is a Leftwing phenomenon unique to modern America (1990 - 2020), but
this false. Political correctness is a phenomenon as old as time; in every
human society some ideas are inside the Overton Window and others are
outside the Overton Window.
In every society there is a dominant ideology, and this dominant ideology will
restrict the bounds of that society's Overton Window. Ideas that corroborate the
tenets of the dominant ideology are inside the Overton Window, while ideas that
contradict the tenets of the dominant ideology are outside the Overton Window.
In 2020 Saudi Arabia, the dominant ideology is Islam; there is no god but Allah
and Muhammad is his prophet. Any person in the country who says something
that goes against this dominant ideology (for example, someone who says
"There is no god; the atheists are correct") will be at risk of imprisonment and
execution.
In 1950 Russia, the dominant ideology was Communism; the notion that a
command economy run by the government was the best way of running society.
Any person in the country who spoke against this ideology, or who simply
criticized the way the current government was running the economy, would be
thrown into a gulag.
In 1950 America, the dominant ideology was Christianity; there is a god living in
the sky with a son named Jesus. Anyone who spoke against this ideology was at
risk of being socially ostracized, and perhaps denied job opportunities.
In 1990 - 2020 America, the dominant ideology among Leftwing Americans has
thus far been Blank Slate Theory Egalitarianism (sometimes called 'Cultural
Marxism'). Among Rightwing Americans, Christianity is still popular.