Posted on 12/23/2021 4:12:14 AM PST by MtnClimber
There are areas in this world where there is security, freedom, and prosperity, especially in relation to those other areas where tyranny and lawlessness still exist and economic security does not.
It’s fifty years now since I was at university and a great deal of my time there -- especially the weekends -- is long forgotten.
I do remember going with the intention of studying math and economics. At that time, and maybe still, there was a requirement, in the first year, to take other subjects. Whether this was to prevent specializing too soon or to provide a more rounded education or both I don’t know but, when my second year began one of those other subjects became all of my classes, either Modern History or Economic History.
At that level, the assumption was that you already knew the who, what, where and when of historical events and the focus was on the why. So, there were no multiple choice or true/false questions, only two-thousand-word essays on the why of important events in history. I was fascinated with these, basically, puzzles, working back in time to see what had happened to set in motion the factors behind, for example, the outbreak of wars.
One of these assignments was to “Account for the Industrial Revolution occurring in Britain before other countries.” For a long time, the accepted explanation had been that the “Protestant Work Ethic’ was the reason but, while there was an innate industriousness in the people of Britain generally, it was no more so than some of their neighbors in Europe. Equally, while Britain had adequate ore and coal resources it was no more blessed than many other countries and much less than some. Neither did Britain have a massive population or land area.
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Diversity is the utopia of the left. It gives them plenty of groups to play against each other to tear down civilization.
Nsdt. ( No sht dick tracy) if diversity was a strength we’d have a lot more one legged female trans downs syndrome playing professional basketball. Instead of 7 foot, low IQ negros.
I’ve always hated that term. In order to ‘celebrate diversity’, one has to look at people for WHAT they are, rather than WHO they are.
Diversity, like things on the order of climate, or varieties of roses, or philosophy, has so many conflicting and unfitted factors, that no one single definition works. These internal conflicts and unaccountable variations end up being largely self-canceling, making reliance on “diversity” an exercise in futility.
But human minds insist in putting things into defined categories, and the world is just too messy for that. So allowances have to be made that do not draw too sharp of a definition of what is “proper” and what is “discarded”.
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds” - attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. Self-reliance cannot be underestimated. Use it to your own personal advantage.
Never has been. One of the biggest lies ever told.
Deserves repeating!
I suspect that there are multiple psychological mechanisms in play here.
I suspect that the various different groups (or "sections" as the Left likes to call them) are not so much "played against" each other as that people who are members of only one or two of the "accepted" groups (say, homosexuals who are simultaneously Chicanos) will unconsciously feel compelled to assert their allegiance with special aggressiveness, in order to prove their "belonging."
For example: Someone who is "only" a woman or "only" a Black will necessarily feel less "victimized" (and hence actually privileged) than a poor Black handicapped lesbian. The Black or female person will therefore feel it necessary to be especially combative and "crazy" in order to establish his/her "credibility."
If a White man who attended an Ivy League university can point "only" to his, say, homosexuality as a "signifier" of "belonging," then he will be required to be particularly strident.
Regards,
When was the last time England was invaded by a foreign power? A.D. 1066?
There's your answer!
Everything else follows from that one, simple historical fact.
Regards,
A decade or two go an essay like this would be roundly ridiculed & anyone expressing agreement would be waved off as a racist xenophobe on this very site.
Luckily those clowns, as subsequent events have shown, couldn’t have turned out to be more wrong. Although I don’t think any are still around to admit it.
https://odysee.com/@Ziggs:e/black:927
It’s working. One group is at war with the other, which steadfastly refuses to admit that they are under attack, or to take the appropriate actions in self-defense.
Diversity. Division. Divide. Same root.
Name one place at anytime in history made better by importing Somalis?
Somalia.
(Get it? When country X imports Somalis, that makes Somalia a better place.)
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