Somebody else posted this, I don't remember who or where, but it sums it up nicely:
There's a thin veneer of hyper-competent professionals who keep the lights on and the water drinkable. Replace them with the incompetent and the water turns brown and the lights go out.
That about sums it up. Although you might look up Jerry Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureacracy just for grins and giggles.
Wokeism is going to precipitate a serious breakdown of the West's technological society. And for them, that's a feature, not a bug.
Hiring someone to work for your company using any reason other than meritocracy is just plain stupid...
Fifth century? B.C. as in Pericles and Socrates, or A.D. as in Attila the Hun?
That thin veneer has been all but erased with imported hordes of third world immigration and the cult of multiculturalism.
I recall the landmark 1978 racial quota Bakke case where despite having higher test scores and grades Allan Bakke was denied admission to University of California Davis medical school. Bakke won at the Supreme Court and was admitted to medical school and went on to become a Mayo Clinic physician. Patrick Chavis, reputed to be the minority student admitted with lower scores than Bakke, became a physician who later lost his medical license for incompetence and lost a major malpractice case where he was also found guilty of gross neglect and incompetence in his treatment of three liposuction patients one of whom died.