American humourist Evan Esar is known for the famous quote:
“All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise”.
There’s nothing any of us can do that will change that basic driver of humankind despite what some political leadership might like to have us believe. Most of us are different. We are competitive. We do want to have more and be better. We don’t want to be like everybody else and once upon a time, we were encouraged to strive to be the best we could be.
Some would have us believe that competitiveness is bad because it encourages us to want to be better than others but worse, it makes the ‘losers’ feel bad and we can’t have those hurty feelings lying around.
Today our western world faces a destructive phenomenon that denies that certain historical events even happened and cleanses others to fit suspect belief systems. In many cases, young people have little understanding or knowledge of the history that made our world what it is today. Without knowing that and tracing the journey, they haven’t a clue what they’re doing here and spend their lives floundering around in platitudinous nonsense, understanding very little.
So in the interests of equality, diversity and inclusion, we bring together hugely different groups of people who have very little in common. We lower the standards of achievement so they can feel good and feel “included” then we wonder why our world just ain’t what it used to be.
Some world leaders, walking hand in hand with that obsolete, useless, costly leviathan called the United Nations, think they can legislate and regulate to make all of us equal. No sensible person can surely believe that governments can manage and regulate what people think and believe, with the stroke of a pen. If you believe in that theory you’re probably not far removed from believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.
While we strive to be different, we also choose to associate with others with whom we share things in common rather than the opposite, so where do the legislators think they’re going to draw the line? Will those of us who are not gay for example, eventually have to provide proof of sharing our social time equally between gay bars and heterosexual ones?
Or should rugby players have to provide proof of equal time at soccer or netball or whatever? How ridiculous does that sound? But how is it any different from demanding compliance with diversity and inclusion?
Our esteemed leaders need to get back to the basics of running the country and stop trying to force social engineering on us.
Diversity and inclusion are stupid, meaningless words that slot well into slogans and that’s about as much use as they are, though they give the politicians a way to tighten up on our freedom of speech. For that reason alone, they are extremely dangerous words.
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
MILTON FRIEDMAN, Free to Choose
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