The way I see it is:
- I take a photo of a landscape
I don't think pylons are thically pleasing so I remove them
I now have an attractive image of a landscape
The way you see it is:
- you are removing ugly features
there fore you are creating a fantasy landscape
therefore you are making a political statement
The issue I have with that reasoning is that you are ascribing to me a motive that I never had.
Now you may take that image and use it to prove a point to someone else but that is not the reason I took the photo.
Some may also say that I am 'being political' wihout realising it. Personally I find that idea patronising in the extreme and is one common to many with a politically philosophical approach to life.
When people talk about other's motivation for doing things, what they normally reveal is their only own reasons for doing 'xyz', which may have nothing to do with the reasons of the people they are commenting on. For example.....
Mike,
You captured the essence of PC liberalism quite nicely. First they re-define what "being political" or this or that term means (to them), then they assign it to you, whether you meant it or not (they always know better), then they attack you for it, and ultimately they'd try to destroy you, "starve you to death," etc., if they can.
No Mike did not. He simply explained a common problem when
humans of any background, whether it be political, cultural religious judge others by projecting themselves and their motivations onto others.
Just as your post simply reveals you have anti PC/Liberalism biases and pretty much nothing else.
Due to people second guessing me all my life and with very few exceptions getting it completely wrong, I quickly learnt never to assume that my reasoning for doing something may be the reason others do something.