Since the prizes awarded by these institutions are 100% fake, this means the institutions are 100% fake as well: and yet as @toad_spotted describes in this piece, the supposedly brightest people in our society are increasingly subservient to them
Hence fake elites
It's no coincidence that "the admissions office are presumed true and righteous altogether": since the prizes they offer aren't real, their judgment on who deserves a seat at the table can be 100% arbitrary
As long as people keep buying into the delusion it will only get worse
This is one of those things that's individually liberating but socially horrifying
If you're a parent, you don't have to compete in this insane process, your kids will be just fine
But the order your kids will grow up in will be run by the people produced by this process
The solution to this should be very simple: if we believed in The Science!, we could just look at the results, and... see they're not there
Since this can't happen, it's clear that belief in education as a great leveler is more important to the regime than science or results.
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There's a freaky parallel here where once scientific progress banishes the demons of Malthus, relaxing selection pressures to almost nothing, the resulting void immediately conjures up new social demons to recreate the genetic grinder we thought we were escaping
Note for instance how it's no longer "safe" to have just 1 kid, because of the large chance he/she will be reversed into she/he, or made a eunuch drone in the hive-city, extincting your genetic line. Reason says you should have several
The new demons aren't material, but psychic
And so far, the *psychic* demons are turning out to be far more dangerous to humanity's future capital than all of the demons of droughts, famines, plagues, wars, and cave bears ever were
The bind that liberalism has put itself in is very simple. It promises a level playing field, but when you actually play the game, it keeps resulting in unequal outcomes between different groups
"Reasonable people" should conclude that something is fundamentally wrong with it
Wokeness buys liberalism's basic promise—all groups are equal in ability, and we will treat them fairly—then watches as the system keeps spitting out "unfair" disparities
From this perspective, it is perfectly reasonable and logical to then say "Well this system is just a lie"
There's no escape hatch here. If you're a liberal, and you keep seeing big disparities in outcome between races or genders or etc, logic insists you should become Woke to correct this
You're only quibbling about the best Woke policies. Not that Wokeness is itself wrong
Here's a simple test of the non-woke left's defenses against the woke.
Differences in outcome between men and women, and people of different races, are very clear. Look at crime rates, for instance. What explains these differences?
You don't exactly have to be Bobby Fischer to think through the next 2-3 moves here
Poverty, right? Material outcomes? Well if everyone is equal, what causes some groups to continually lag behind in material outcomes?
What explanation exists besides systemic racism?
Cultural differences? All right, well if the dominant culture privileges itself, shutting other cultures out of the wealth that is necessary to access resources, become educated, and succeed, how is that not just another form of systemic racism by the ruling white culture?
It's interesting that the regime keeps trying to tie incels to gun violence as a grave threat to society when the last time that men were allowed widespread access to arms led to the most attractive and successful population of marriage partners of all time
My read on this is that the introduction of agriculture/pastoralism allows the families/clans that initially monopolize these resources to enact violence/ostracism against their *internal* competitors, allowing those clans complete reproductive takeover
But once that success allows them to grow to the size of a polity that can afford—and requires—a new and dedicated martial caste to protect its wealth and property, reproduction suddenly becomes much more egalitarian
Especially as martial tech allows them to conquer *outsiders*
The point of this ideology is that you're not allowed to exist outside it. If you ever transgress it—even in the past, before it existed—you get thrown out of society's airlock
The lack of redemption is how you engineer total submission to it
Since you've already been given the social death penalty, there's no further costs for defecting harder against it, even becoming its mortal enemy
The effect of its demand for submission is that it becomes a radicalization engine
Extreme polarization is baked into the cake
But this ideology, or maybe more accurately state of mind, hates that you continue to exist—you've been canceled, but it knows it lacks the power to make you *literally* dead
It can still see you floating around out there beyond the airlock. And worse, you can still *transmit*
Thank goodness we fortified our democracy to remove that existential threat to our people, allowing a triumphant return to normal of exporting countless working-class jobs to foreign countries while importing millions of migrants to compete with our newly-unemployed citizens
You'd never know because the media ran a 5-year propaganda campaign to deny any hint that what he was doing was working, but by the end he'd cut immigration in half + real working-class wages rose for the first time in two generations
But doing that was a fascism, so out it goes
For all their howling about "privilege," the nation's true privileged class has unanimously realigned to the Media-Migration Complex
There's a reason they see working-class gains as a total nightmare: their identity, + comfort, depend on the illusion they're still pro-"worker"