In high school hockey I languished in the junior team in my 11th year. I was probably the 3rd best defenseman in the school, but eight played ahead of me on the main team, 5 of whom had never played defense before. They never even let me play one game. That was devastating for me as a young man. I knew then that what I had been told, if I worked hard and did well I would get ahead, was not necessarily true.
I have found that to be the case almost everywhere I have worked.
Amazing how analysis of the competence crisis, bioleninism, normal leninism, and ponerology all converge to the same conclusions. Almost like we're all discussing the same phenomenon, seeing the same thing, describing the same features of that thing, but using slightly different conceptual tools and vocabularies....
In the sciences, I generally found that if colleagues came to the same conclusions independently, using their own methodologies, it usually meant we were all very much on the right track.
"In the sciences, I generally found that if colleagues came to the same conclusions independently, using their own methodologies, it usually meant we were all very much on the right track."
That is a somewhat different, and even stronger, perspective on consilience. Convergence of evidence from disparity of methods.
I can't remember which of Plato's dialogues it was, but one of the interlocutors proposed a definition of "justice" as something like "everyone doing his own work, and not interfering in the work of others," which struck me (at the time I read it) as an interesting idea because it seemed so different from how justice is typically characterized, but after so many years of the Marxcissist Karens in HR and ESG-loving hedge fund managers constantly interfering in everyone's work, and after seeing the DEI regime tie professional advancement to everything other than competence, I really think that definition really has a lot going for it.
Excellent essay, and great job reclaiming "social justice" -- or "societal justice" -- from the Left!
Referring to your footnote: if I’m explaining to generally intelligent people (eg, other working professionals) I use the term “cultural Marxism,” or just “Marxists”. Otherwise it’s just plain old “woke”.
This demonstrates the huge cost of displacing competency. Personally, I backed off pushing hard when Aff Action was renewed, resigned my commission when the Obama administration sent an email saying diversity would be promoted first and have done the minimum since highly racist DEI policy was adopted at a job I loved. Retiring soon, but had I been valued for who I was, rather than marginalized for gender and skin tone, I would have added a lot more value to society. Absolutely sure I'm not alone in my response
Great articulation here re the moral argument behind “true social justice”. Thank you!
One stray thought. It would be interesting to explore measures of alignment of the sort you are interested and to plot across different dimensions - space or time. A simplistic idea for a measure is slope of income vs IQ.
Sounds like something that Murray or Dutton might have already done. I've seen some basic lists of career by average IQ, but yeah, would be nice to see some studies over longer periods of time.
I stole it from John Carter. Knowing John, that thieving, warring Martian, he probably stole it too! But it's all good. Words are designed to be stolen.
We can look at the failure of Christianity to lead. In this vacuum of actual religious life instead of cant, largely the Christianity arising out of German Idealism triumphed in Marx. Marx whose family was Rabbinical and Bourgeois founded a new secular faith with the help of an Industrialist,. As Berdyaev has it in his essay title "The Worth of Christianity and the Unworthiness of Christians." I rather like Leon Bloy and see in him a man of Catholic spirit. “Art and the Pilgrim of the Holy Sepulchre”
“The Prophet is above all a Voice to call down Justice. If one is absolutely determined, with or without irony, to bestow this magnificent name upon such a hurler of curses as I am, one must at once accept the consequence, drawn from the very nature of things, that my shouts will have the power to accelerate devastation. In this sense shall I be a prophet, as much as it is possible to be one without divine inspiration, precisely as a man of prayer is a worker of miracles.”—“The Hurler of Curses” (201-02)
The gathered materials in “The Hurler of Curses” opens with a fascinating personification of Fury as a kind of spiritual force in the world. There are also meditations on being the one hunted by others, on a famous fire at a charity event (196-201), as well as prophetic calls for justice and the story of a mad gypsy. “Modern Christians” focuses on the hypocrisy of both laity and priesthood, especially in regard to the problem of poverty.
Puts a somewhat new spin on some of the "will to power" shtick: reducing everything to power can be a convenient way for all sides of avoiding to grapple with one's own development and limitations.
I am under the weather, so perhaps not that lucid...
But I see all this as primarily an ethics problem. That is what it would be called in my training.
People are making proposals that would help themselves but harm the group. They are being guided by a psychopathic ideology that states that every person should have full rights and freedoms regardless of his criminal behavior. And actually, maybe we should start seeing the action of pointing out criminal behavior as a crime. Crime is a "social construct" that has no relationship to the success or failure of a group or a society. In fact, success or failure doesn't really matter any more, as aren't we all just part of a massive First Person Shooter game? If you don't like how things are going, just hit the Great Reset.
All this talk - all these ideas - are very out-ethics (unethical). They ignore the value to society of honest production, of work in general, and of personal integrity in particular. They are psychopathic.
So I don't see this getting solved by any sort of political or ideological contest, beyond one that is very broad. Will the sane rule the Earth, or the insane? At this stage this is mostly a problem of basic education, as Harrison is busy trying to accomplish. Eventually it will become a problem of developing a cadre of persons that is up to the challenge of providing sane leadership and defending us against criminal leadership.
I recently saw a documentary about escaping North Korea. North Korea is one of the most criminal state enterprises in the world right now. It treats is population like slaves (or sheep), has killed millions of them with famine, and threatens the world with war. It's leadership deserves absolutely ZERO respect in the international community, and yet they are given the status of world leaders. If I could I would send in a ship, abduct the entire North Korean leadership and replace them with good people. We eventually need international mechanisms that can accomplish such a thing. We have similar problems around the world, NK is only the most blatant example.
This is what a corporate group that want;s to survive does if one area or division gives them trouble. They send in a whole new management team and replace the existing ones. The troublesome managers are either let go en masse (stupid) or tested to find out who's causing the real problem (might not even be one of them). When it's all worked out, normalcy can be restored. And you get happy people again. Normally some people will realize that they knew about the situation for a while, but were afraid to report it. They will have to be corrected to improve their courage level.
We are missing most of this know-how in this culture, and we need it now. Even "great" democracies like the U.S. or Israel are teetering because certain persons are destabilizing things from the inside. As I see it, we are very close to acting too late. We will pay for our lack of vision and courage.
You're missing why they suddenly cared about plagiarism - she wasn't willing to silence student's protests against Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Choosing one of the few influential Americans who *wasn't* willing to go completely along with the pathocracy to make your point seems short-sighted - removing "diversity" won't remove the pathocracy, and without removing the pathocracy you won't be able to have social justice.
If one of the "few influential Americans" who is Pro-Palestinian is also a fraud, then that person is part of the problem. Ponerology doesn't operate based on the opinions people happen to have, or their political beliefs. It about their psychological characteristics. There are plenty of people with a pathocratic mentality that are also "pro-Palestinian." That, and the fact that Israel is a pathocracy, are not mutually exclusive. Gay is not a Pappe or a Finkelstein, IMO.
If diversity is properly defined as including "diverse" psychopathologies and psychological deficiencies, then yes, removing diversity can theoretically remove the pathocracy, though it is more complicated than that, for sure.
Absolutely. There's so much to say here that it's hard for me to comment without making a wall text, but i'll try to be concise.
All the presidents of all the ivies are either Jewish or married to a Jew. This is also true of these other elite schools like MIT and Cal Tech. The only exceptions to this pattern were Claudine Gay and Liz Magill, who lost their jobs. Gay was replaced by a Jew named Garber and Magill by Larry Jameson, who presents as a Gentile, and whose wife presents as Jewish but who knows. Jewish president Kornbluth at MIT survived this whole pressure campaign and kept her job...
...a pressure campaign mounted and financed by a Jewish billionaire named Bill Ackman. When Business Insider revealed Ackman's own (Israeli) wife massively plagiarized her own work at MIT, and way worse (repeatedly plagiarizing from Wikipedia) Ackman targeted the parent company of Business Insider who are now investigating the publication for their accurate reporting. Who / whom.
Israel starts a genocide, accuses their critics of calling for genocide for criticizing them, then American Zionist Jews get to flex on Gentiles and get more and more and more of what they want. Why do you think affirmative action targets Asians? Because they're competitors to Jews in elite universities. Why do you think unqualified, "upwardly adjusted" people are in all these positions of power? To keep those positions out of the hands of anyone that could challenge Jewish power, and because the proxies can be exposed as frauds and removed the second they deviate. Claudine Gay proves this.
Why do you think John Stewart publicly presented an award to a Ukro-Nazi with SS bolts tattooed on his neck (and at Disney World no less)? Because Azov is bankrolled by a Jewish oligarch named Kolomoyskyi and Stewart doesn't care. No consistency, no shame, no principles, no reciprocity, no bridge too far, no depths too low. Who / whom only, always and forever.
As far as "worship" goes, I just think you're seeing the difference between a revival meeting and a Presbyterian gathering. Very few people are willing to think for themselves, regardless of what political persuasion they have.
In high school hockey I languished in the junior team in my 11th year. I was probably the 3rd best defenseman in the school, but eight played ahead of me on the main team, 5 of whom had never played defense before. They never even let me play one game. That was devastating for me as a young man. I knew then that what I had been told, if I worked hard and did well I would get ahead, was not necessarily true.
I have found that to be the case almost everywhere I have worked.
Amazing how analysis of the competence crisis, bioleninism, normal leninism, and ponerology all converge to the same conclusions. Almost like we're all discussing the same phenomenon, seeing the same thing, describing the same features of that thing, but using slightly different conceptual tools and vocabularies....
In the sciences, I generally found that if colleagues came to the same conclusions independently, using their own methodologies, it usually meant we were all very much on the right track.
"In the sciences, I generally found that if colleagues came to the same conclusions independently, using their own methodologies, it usually meant we were all very much on the right track."
That is a somewhat different, and even stronger, perspective on consilience. Convergence of evidence from disparity of methods.
I can't remember which of Plato's dialogues it was, but one of the interlocutors proposed a definition of "justice" as something like "everyone doing his own work, and not interfering in the work of others," which struck me (at the time I read it) as an interesting idea because it seemed so different from how justice is typically characterized, but after so many years of the Marxcissist Karens in HR and ESG-loving hedge fund managers constantly interfering in everyone's work, and after seeing the DEI regime tie professional advancement to everything other than competence, I really think that definition really has a lot going for it.
Excellent essay, and great job reclaiming "social justice" -- or "societal justice" -- from the Left!
Referring to your footnote: if I’m explaining to generally intelligent people (eg, other working professionals) I use the term “cultural Marxism,” or just “Marxists”. Otherwise it’s just plain old “woke”.
Great piece, Harrison.
Ok, good to know "woke" is still in. ;)
It is in Texas. 🤠
This demonstrates the huge cost of displacing competency. Personally, I backed off pushing hard when Aff Action was renewed, resigned my commission when the Obama administration sent an email saying diversity would be promoted first and have done the minimum since highly racist DEI policy was adopted at a job I loved. Retiring soon, but had I been valued for who I was, rather than marginalized for gender and skin tone, I would have added a lot more value to society. Absolutely sure I'm not alone in my response
Great articulation here re the moral argument behind “true social justice”. Thank you!
One stray thought. It would be interesting to explore measures of alignment of the sort you are interested and to plot across different dimensions - space or time. A simplistic idea for a measure is slope of income vs IQ.
EDIT: also that’s a badass painting of Beethoven!
Sounds like something that Murray or Dutton might have already done. I've seen some basic lists of career by average IQ, but yeah, would be nice to see some studies over longer periods of time.
Not only did Gay plagiarize, according to Danish data scientist Jonatan Pallesen she is also wrong:
Claudine Gay’s Data Problem - Christopher F. Rufo
https://christopherrufo.com/p/claudine-gays-data-problem
'incompetocracy'
Word of the day!
I stole it from John Carter. Knowing John, that thieving, warring Martian, he probably stole it too! But it's all good. Words are designed to be stolen.
We can look at the failure of Christianity to lead. In this vacuum of actual religious life instead of cant, largely the Christianity arising out of German Idealism triumphed in Marx. Marx whose family was Rabbinical and Bourgeois founded a new secular faith with the help of an Industrialist,. As Berdyaev has it in his essay title "The Worth of Christianity and the Unworthiness of Christians." I rather like Leon Bloy and see in him a man of Catholic spirit. “Art and the Pilgrim of the Holy Sepulchre”
“The Prophet is above all a Voice to call down Justice. If one is absolutely determined, with or without irony, to bestow this magnificent name upon such a hurler of curses as I am, one must at once accept the consequence, drawn from the very nature of things, that my shouts will have the power to accelerate devastation. In this sense shall I be a prophet, as much as it is possible to be one without divine inspiration, precisely as a man of prayer is a worker of miracles.”—“The Hurler of Curses” (201-02)
The gathered materials in “The Hurler of Curses” opens with a fascinating personification of Fury as a kind of spiritual force in the world. There are also meditations on being the one hunted by others, on a famous fire at a charity event (196-201), as well as prophetic calls for justice and the story of a mad gypsy. “Modern Christians” focuses on the hypocrisy of both laity and priesthood, especially in regard to the problem of poverty.
Puts a somewhat new spin on some of the "will to power" shtick: reducing everything to power can be a convenient way for all sides of avoiding to grapple with one's own development and limitations.
Leviticus 19:15 ►
New International Version
“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly."
I am under the weather, so perhaps not that lucid...
But I see all this as primarily an ethics problem. That is what it would be called in my training.
People are making proposals that would help themselves but harm the group. They are being guided by a psychopathic ideology that states that every person should have full rights and freedoms regardless of his criminal behavior. And actually, maybe we should start seeing the action of pointing out criminal behavior as a crime. Crime is a "social construct" that has no relationship to the success or failure of a group or a society. In fact, success or failure doesn't really matter any more, as aren't we all just part of a massive First Person Shooter game? If you don't like how things are going, just hit the Great Reset.
All this talk - all these ideas - are very out-ethics (unethical). They ignore the value to society of honest production, of work in general, and of personal integrity in particular. They are psychopathic.
So I don't see this getting solved by any sort of political or ideological contest, beyond one that is very broad. Will the sane rule the Earth, or the insane? At this stage this is mostly a problem of basic education, as Harrison is busy trying to accomplish. Eventually it will become a problem of developing a cadre of persons that is up to the challenge of providing sane leadership and defending us against criminal leadership.
I recently saw a documentary about escaping North Korea. North Korea is one of the most criminal state enterprises in the world right now. It treats is population like slaves (or sheep), has killed millions of them with famine, and threatens the world with war. It's leadership deserves absolutely ZERO respect in the international community, and yet they are given the status of world leaders. If I could I would send in a ship, abduct the entire North Korean leadership and replace them with good people. We eventually need international mechanisms that can accomplish such a thing. We have similar problems around the world, NK is only the most blatant example.
This is what a corporate group that want;s to survive does if one area or division gives them trouble. They send in a whole new management team and replace the existing ones. The troublesome managers are either let go en masse (stupid) or tested to find out who's causing the real problem (might not even be one of them). When it's all worked out, normalcy can be restored. And you get happy people again. Normally some people will realize that they knew about the situation for a while, but were afraid to report it. They will have to be corrected to improve their courage level.
We are missing most of this know-how in this culture, and we need it now. Even "great" democracies like the U.S. or Israel are teetering because certain persons are destabilizing things from the inside. As I see it, we are very close to acting too late. We will pay for our lack of vision and courage.
You're missing why they suddenly cared about plagiarism - she wasn't willing to silence student's protests against Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Choosing one of the few influential Americans who *wasn't* willing to go completely along with the pathocracy to make your point seems short-sighted - removing "diversity" won't remove the pathocracy, and without removing the pathocracy you won't be able to have social justice.
If one of the "few influential Americans" who is Pro-Palestinian is also a fraud, then that person is part of the problem. Ponerology doesn't operate based on the opinions people happen to have, or their political beliefs. It about their psychological characteristics. There are plenty of people with a pathocratic mentality that are also "pro-Palestinian." That, and the fact that Israel is a pathocracy, are not mutually exclusive. Gay is not a Pappe or a Finkelstein, IMO.
If diversity is properly defined as including "diverse" psychopathologies and psychological deficiencies, then yes, removing diversity can theoretically remove the pathocracy, though it is more complicated than that, for sure.
Absolutely. There's so much to say here that it's hard for me to comment without making a wall text, but i'll try to be concise.
All the presidents of all the ivies are either Jewish or married to a Jew. This is also true of these other elite schools like MIT and Cal Tech. The only exceptions to this pattern were Claudine Gay and Liz Magill, who lost their jobs. Gay was replaced by a Jew named Garber and Magill by Larry Jameson, who presents as a Gentile, and whose wife presents as Jewish but who knows. Jewish president Kornbluth at MIT survived this whole pressure campaign and kept her job...
...a pressure campaign mounted and financed by a Jewish billionaire named Bill Ackman. When Business Insider revealed Ackman's own (Israeli) wife massively plagiarized her own work at MIT, and way worse (repeatedly plagiarizing from Wikipedia) Ackman targeted the parent company of Business Insider who are now investigating the publication for their accurate reporting. Who / whom.
Israel starts a genocide, accuses their critics of calling for genocide for criticizing them, then American Zionist Jews get to flex on Gentiles and get more and more and more of what they want. Why do you think affirmative action targets Asians? Because they're competitors to Jews in elite universities. Why do you think unqualified, "upwardly adjusted" people are in all these positions of power? To keep those positions out of the hands of anyone that could challenge Jewish power, and because the proxies can be exposed as frauds and removed the second they deviate. Claudine Gay proves this.
Why do you think John Stewart publicly presented an award to a Ukro-Nazi with SS bolts tattooed on his neck (and at Disney World no less)? Because Azov is bankrolled by a Jewish oligarch named Kolomoyskyi and Stewart doesn't care. No consistency, no shame, no principles, no reciprocity, no bridge too far, no depths too low. Who / whom only, always and forever.
Pseudo-Moralist? - also from Jordan Petersen? Modern Moralists -aka do-gooders
What kind of developed social and moral intelligence does Donald Trump demonstrate?
And simultaneously invoke and empower in his MAGA worshippers.
Have you ever seen films of his theatrical performances/rallies, especially the most recent one.
As far as "worship" goes, I just think you're seeing the difference between a revival meeting and a Presbyterian gathering. Very few people are willing to think for themselves, regardless of what political persuasion they have.