PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Katherine Novikov, is the Executive Director of the Diamond Mind Foundation. The mission of the small family foundation is to help people see without distortion.
For years now we have been hearing the Ivy League class chant at us, “Inclusion is our strength!” In the name of this novel cultural-political assertion the foundational principles of our constitutional republic have been ignored, eroded, and dismissed as irrelevant. Instead, we have been told by people like the trustees of our countries most wealthy institutions elite universities (who sit on $500B in assets), CEOs of multinational corporations (who control trillions) and the Washington DC permanent class that one group must now grovel, step aside and literally bend a knee on command to new principles because “Inclusion is our strength!”
We are warned repeatedly that it is a serious moral defect to question this new world view. Some even tell us that it is anti-Christian (they missed the part about the path being narrow). When we speak up saying we want assurance that our pilots, surgeons, our air traffic controllers and our children’s teachers should be selected on merit and character we are derided and even attacked. The powers that be paint us ordinary Americans as cavemen incapable of grasping the wisdom in the next evolutionary cultural-political leap forward that “Inclusion is our strength!”
Even those who resonate with such an idea are responsible, as American citizens, to take a step back and think about it more deeply. The question “Should we change the highest principles governing American society” far beyond the scope of this blog post. Instead, we consider how thinking about cultural and political ideas has always taken inspiration from order in the natural world.
Is “Inclusion is our strength” type thinking natural? Actually, there is evidence for it depending on what part of nature one considers, but it carries grave implications for the 21st century.
History reveals a tendency for human political forces to embrace nature’s way of “survival of the fittest.” Monarchy, feudalism, communism, fascism, monopoly capitalism & crony capitalism and Nazism all assume “the fittest group” must control the less fit. Humans are sophisticated, clever primates, though. Humans, like reptiles, fish and other lesser creatures, are quite adept at sophisticated mimicry to fool prey, including bait and switch ideological tactics. And, in 2024, the technology for deception at some humans’ disposal is probably beyond our imaginations.
All of the aforementioned groups are supremacists. They profess common-good type ideas (of things like equity and inclusion) as a veneer – but what defines “common good”? What they don’t tell you is that like a vaguely written contract, definitions are fluid and are subject to interpretation. The weaponization of loose definitions is a well-researched human tool of domination. This domination through changing definition of words & ideals is somewhat understandably seen by those who do it as “perfectly natural.”
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Katherine Novikov is the Executive Director of the Diamond Mind Foundation. The mission of the small family foundation is to help people see without distortion.