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| The Left Are the Locusts of Culture |
| 2018-08-01 |
| h/t Instapundit There is a scene in Independence Day where the character mind-melds with the alien, and receives a sudden understanding of the peril the Earth is in. Quoting from memory, he says something like "They’re like locusts. They move from planet to planet, take everything it has to give and move on." For some time now, I’ve thought this applies to the left. Certainly, entire fields of endeavor, entire expanses of human knowledge, science, and interest, seem to collapse in the wake of an infestation by the left. I used to think this happened because of the left’s charming habit of hiring only on political conformity, and not on talent, intellectual ability or even interest in the field. ...Except that the left is like locusts. They can’t help destroying. ...And on the private side, where many of my friends are people of letters and deeply cloaked in their universities and departments, I get more reports of this sort of bad and infective craziness: departments in the hard sciences worrying about hiring "diverse" instead of the best people for the job; professors and employees who are out of control and say and do the most heinous things can’t be fired because they’re "protected minorities." This is far worse than a simple bias in hiring. I don’t know if it’s possible for any field to stand in the face of such an onslaught. Perhaps an unskilled labor field, where it doesn’t matter which pair of hands is doing things, and the requirements are minimal. Certainly not any field that requires expertise, specialized techniques or even ‐ like mere writing ‐ craftsmanship. IMO, the explanation for the Left is inferiority complex. They, especially the ones in academia, know - though they'll never admit it even to themselves - they're second rate. And, if you're a second rater, that greater pleasure is there than humiliating and destroying one's betters? |
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