Diversity
The natural order of things; an evolutionary fact.
The highest concentrations of biodiversity are found in ecosystems that have managed to avoid forces that disrupt its equilibrium, whether internal or external. All attempts at increasing biodiversity through interference, both synthetic and natural, have failed to generate additional diversity. It is only through a conscious withdrawal of action, when nature is left to its own devices, that a return to its default state begins. Diversity among human populations is no different. The more you interfere, the more you destroy diversity, and real progress, in this case evolution, only emerges on a fertile bed of differentiation.
The introduction of diversity and sensitivity training alongside specialized committees dedicated to engineering nearly every workplace have produced results that are at odds with their desired outcomes. Every instance of follow-up research indicates that after employees were required to attend diversity training, divisiveness and suspicion increases in the workplace among all groups. This was perfectly predictable.
We may possess innate fears about those different than us, but we are smart enough to learn over time that our immutable characteristics do not define us, and so we emphasize our common ground and move forward cooperatively. Diversity training and committees seek to magnify the importance of these differences, the ones that average employees already reconciled on their own as a member of a pluralist society without the assistance of a third party. People learn how to get along perfectly well in the absence of an interfering and politically-minded arbiter, and those who do not are not likely to benefit from sensitivity training.
We become good enough to one another over time as a result of our shared personal experiences and the recognition of our commonalities, which outnumber our differences by orders of magnitude. Elevating our inconsequential differences as prime is regressive and STUPID. The claim that any individual can and should be viewed as a meaningful depiction of a prescribed group is precisely the basis and justification for racism. It is no wonder that ordinary people reject the inferences of diversity initiatives - we are not naive enough to accept their deterministic and schismatic views.
Despite this knowledge, the modern obsession with diversity programs and policies is moving full steam ahead. Half of the explanation is that most politicians, administrators and bureaucrats are social science majors; the other half is HUBRIS. It is true that human populations can be grouped or categorized in meaningful ways, but this is done principally through culture; every other metric is inferior. This is obvious when you examine attempts at clustering people and discover that populations are biologically real, their races are not. While populations have constructed components, they do not override the biodiversity intrinsic to a specific group. It is well understood that there is much more variation within groups than between groups, a politically inconvenient fact that is deliberately avoided when race relations are being discussed.
The importance of diversity cannot be understated from an evolutionary perspective. Public discourse, on the other hand, is disproportionately preoccupied with a forgery. The evolutionary fact of diversity provides us with a notion that some things possess innate qualities, the ignorance of how this fact manifests in the real world is the cause of most of the confusion. This does not dissuade social engineers from foolishly tinkering in our lives, but it is a matter of debate whether their sin is ignorance, egotism, or a splash of both.
The citizenry bears some responsibility in the proliferation of these bad ideas. We sit idly by and permit them to take over our institutions and reward BAD ACTORS for exploiting the systems they produce for fear that we will be labeled a racist or bigot.
The defense against illegitimate name calling is the same as it has always been: bravery, education, and empathy. The antidote to divisive incoherence is the humanizing of everyone as an individual. If you encounter someone who insists anything else, then you have met an ideologue, and the only thing you must do to protect your dignity is stand on your convictions.
A purposeful interference in the natural order of things will stagnate progress and foster opportunities for monopolistic takeovers. Social engineering is anti-evolutionary, anti-progress, anti-democratic, and anti-pluralist.
Attempting to dictate or determine biodiversity on an environmental level through performative and irrelevant summits is merely an opportunity for personal career advancement by ambitious technocrats.
Posted: 1 Jan 2023
