People don’t really notice the early stages of an ideological cultural illness. Infecting minds and propagating in seemingly inconsequential organs (Harvard Law School, say), the spread seems innocuous for a while, not more than a curiosity. The Cassandras wave and shout, but there are always Cassandras. If we took their warnings serious…
People don’t really notice the early stages of an ideological cultural illness. Infecting minds and propagating in seemingly inconsequential organs (Harvard Law School, say), the spread seems innocuous for a while, not more than a curiosity. The Cassandras wave and shout, but there are always Cassandras. If we took their warnings seriously they wouldn’t be Cassandras. Later, when the neural virus has acquired the strength to stand up and begin reshaping the landscape, it will already have developed a potent vocabulary resistant to the existing framework of reason, thought and language that normally inoculates a culture against sudden, destructive change.
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” is a textbook example. Part of tempering the worst effects of an ideological possession includes inventing a new vocabulary that wrests back the inversions and absurdities of the challenge. “Merit, Fairness and Equality” (MFE) does just that. We should test it in the marketplace of ideas. I have tried to distinguish “Equality” from “Equity” in probably a dozen conversations. The outcomes have been unsatisfactory. I’m going to give Merit, Fairness and Equality a try.
People don’t really notice the early stages of an ideological cultural illness. Infecting minds and propagating in seemingly inconsequential organs (Harvard Law School, say), the spread seems innocuous for a while, not more than a curiosity. The Cassandras wave and shout, but there are always Cassandras. If we took their warnings seriously they wouldn’t be Cassandras. Later, when the neural virus has acquired the strength to stand up and begin reshaping the landscape, it will already have developed a potent vocabulary resistant to the existing framework of reason, thought and language that normally inoculates a culture against sudden, destructive change.
“Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” is a textbook example. Part of tempering the worst effects of an ideological possession includes inventing a new vocabulary that wrests back the inversions and absurdities of the challenge. “Merit, Fairness and Equality” (MFE) does just that. We should test it in the marketplace of ideas. I have tried to distinguish “Equality” from “Equity” in probably a dozen conversations. The outcomes have been unsatisfactory. I’m going to give Merit, Fairness and Equality a try.
Yeah, GREAT idea, Sir! :)
Nice rallying cry!!
The irony is that MFE is what we have been trying to follow all these years.