REIGN OF DISCURSIVE TERROR
How Mock-Satanism from France Fueled America’s Cult of Political Correctness
Reign of Discursive Terror traces the unlikely journey of postmodernism from the avant-garde fringes of France to the very heart of America’s cultural establishment. The story told here shows how the writings of Georges Bataille, Michel Foucault, and their heirs supplied the raw material for today’s regime of Political Correctness—rebranded as “Critical Theory” or “Wokism.” What was once a rebellious pose has become the official idiom of power: a discourse that fractures solidarity, sacralizes difference, and neutralizes dissent. This study excavates the occult and Gnostic myths beneath this intellectual edifice, exposing its strange fascination with violence, transgression, and divisiveness. It argues that both Left and Right, despite their antagonistic rhetoric, have come to share this secular theology, thereby ensuring consensus through managed discord. Reign of Discursive Terror is both a genealogy of ideas and a critique of their political afterlife.