"It is worth explaining what the insanely correct is. It is impossible to define it. It surprises us more and more and invents more and more insane things every day."

Sociologist Luca Ricolfi, professor of Data Analysis and president of the “David Hume” Foundation, in his essay “The Madly Correct. The Inclusion That Excludes and the Rise of the New Elite” (336 pages, “Nave di Teseo”) examines what he defines as «a new pathology of contemporary society».

The book describes the transition from political correctness to insanely correctness.

"If I have to identify someone responsible," Ricolfi told Videolina's Tg Cultura, "I think of social media. This degeneration of political correctness dates back to 10-15 years ago and coincides with the affirmation of social media."

And the left, according to the sociologist, is not immune from blame: "The dichotomy inclusion-exclusion has imposed itself on the left, replacing the dichotomy equality-inequality. Up to a certain point, the left reasoned in terms of equality-inequality (think of Norberto Bobbio's 1994 book). Then my colleague Alessandro Pizzorno arrived and convincingly declared that "it's all wrong, we have to talk about inclusion-exclusion. This has completely changed the way the left thinks, which has posed the problem of inclusion and not that of reducing inequalities".

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