Like we'll listen to the opinion of a white male.

@Penrodster Or anyone that agrees with probably the MOST LIBERAL University in the country!!!!

Civilization requires meritocracy,

@wolfhnd Three non sequitur responses--what's the deal?

@WilyRickWiles

It's hard to respond rational to an emotional comment.

I believe Gibbon was right in that Christianity contributed to the decline of Rome. Today a new cult of DIE, diversity, inclusion, and equity is having a similar effect on Western Civilization.

You could argue that the Roman Empire was evil. Similarly you could argue that Western Civilization is corrupt. When civilizations collapse they are rarely built back better. The Soviet Union is an excellent example. Burning it all down may feel good in the moment but it takes a lot of pain to restore what has been destroyed.

What empower Christianity was a growing tolerance for questioning existing institutions. Similarly what empowered DIE was over a century of reforms in Western Civilization. Growing tolerance of alternative lifestyles and luxus have destroyed the meritocracy along with declining general intelligence.

We have pasted into an age of half wits and incompetence. The current administration in the US being an excellent example. Bread and circus has replaced work ethic and character. Without conscientiousness civilization simply will not function and part of conscientiousness is meritocracy.

DIE for the most part is a rebellion against harsh reality that two generations raised in relative luxus can't cope with. Reforms come without the strength of character to make them succeed.

@wolfhnd What's emotional about my comment? I don't think you understand the word. Ironic that you respond with idealism untethered from material reality.

@WilyRickWiles

I know you think you are very clever but I'm unimpressed. You are actually over a hundred years behind the curve on material reality. Determinism worked well for Newtonian physics but relativity and then quantum mechanics made things more complicated. When talking about biological systems you don't even need to go there as pseudo randomness such as seen in Brownian motion is sufficient to make your hubris and scientific pretentions a joke.

Putting that aside sociology and especially scientific socialism is little better than astrology or palm reading as a science. Almost every experiment that liberals have tried have been an abject failure. Years from now people will look back and find the current popular science little better than that of Trofim Lysenko.

Most disturbing you seem unable to comprehend the difference between physical reality and abstract reality. The materialism of Marx and unfortunately most scientists today is pure idiocy.

Finally emotions are the physically expression of instincts colloquially known as feelings. Many of those instincts are incompatible with the abstract reality we call civilization. Stop monkeying around with things you don't understand.

@wolfhnd Your extrapolations from quantum physics are popular scientism. A throwback to Esalen-type mysticism. I understand and have my own models for intuiting quantum physics, thank you very much. And once again, ironically it is you who confuses metaphorical language--the abstract--ideology--with reality.

So what's emotional about my comment?

That’s the end result.

Will take control? They're about 70% to 90% in that door. But you're right, it should be brought to the Supreme Court.

Dumb it down!

There can be no doubt at this point, cultural genocide is the goal. It is a remarkable “coincidence” that this dovetails nicely with the Great Reset…

@WorldSigh If this realization came to the general public during Obama's term, we would be living in a different world.