Diversity dumbed-down

Gemini Moon Reflections to Rile the Masses

Under the light of the Aquarius Full Moon last Monday night I was hit with the question of whether we (The People) are being sold short (by the Establishment) with a dumbed-down substitute for genuine diversity? On the eve of my Mars return I find the urge to share these thoughts irresistible. I might lose some followers with this one, but as always, I am happy to hear any alternate perspectives and arguments against my position. So, as Mercury retrograde returns to visibility as morning star, here goes…

Though I’ve been deepening my understanding and developing my thoughts around the encroachment of globalist neoliberalism cloaked in progress for several years, I am not necessarily naturally disposed to conservatism. However there is a shadow to all things and it is this reality I am seeking to confront and contend with. The ostensible rejection (some would argue supercession by science) of religion since the enlightenment has led in our own time to the widespread worship of woke ideology. The unconscious nature of this possession is what renders it so precarious: the suggestion is invariably met with vehement denial, and without some willingness to wonder about the potential perils of this ersatz devotional movement, the mass is at its mercy.

Decades of determined efforts by radical activists, progressive educators, easily-led politicians, bureaucrats and policy-makers, and globalist corporations have paid off with regard to how widespread are moves to incorporate the new and improved diversity into all walks of life. Now don’t get me wrong. I am all for individual’s freedom to express themselves authentically and in whatsoever ways they might feel the need to, as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone (was the caveat I was raised under). But it seems we are now in some pretty tricky terrain, on a slippery slope perhaps.

The weird Olympics was a case in point, from the transgender reimagining of the Last Supper at the opening ceremony, to the XY chromosome boxer who had an obvious and dangerous physical advantage over her opponent, to Raven Saunders’ (Antifa?) gimp mask, to the shred-tearing critique by so many extra-arena breakdancing experts of RayGun… this snapshot of our zeitgeist indicates (to me) a need for closer examination. I get that the IOC is aligned with the globalists and is therefore on board with doctrinairism in its many varieties (diversity?). There’s unlikely to be much push-back from this “authority”.

But in the world of social media the Olympics caused a stir. I had previously disregarded it as the disingenuous leveraging by the establishment (through Meta, X, et al) of discontent and dissent for divide and conquer purposes (the status quo) but I am now aware of another dimension of the All-Aquarian weirdness.

If we are distracted by the enticements and entitlements of “being who- or whatever we want to be” whenever the mood arises, and expecting that the world will advocate for our right to this expression and applaud it, and paying close attention to if/when the world doesn’t adequately affirm/advocate/applaud my arbitrary identity of any given moment in which case I am justified in my outrage and invocation of the appropriate vengeful spirit (of critical theory, queer theory, restorative justice etc) then we won’t have time/energy/inclination to notice that our right to diversity of thought is being erased.

Even Oxford’s definition of diversity now refers to “the practice or quality of including people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, etc.” It seems that our language is being reimagined too to reflect consensus progressive values, rather than what is real.

Any defence of or advocacy for diversity cannot lose sight of the former meaning, lest we inadvertently replace one form of diversity (thought) with another (identity). In such a case, diversity is not expanded but reduced in its meaning, scope and power. If diversity becomes limited to the expression of one’s identity, are we not only reducing the word diversity, but also our identity itself which may only now be expressed through merely material means i.e. different social/ethnic backgrounds, gender/sexual orientation, and no longer legitimately through diverse opinion and thought, aka dissent, or heresy?

This frivolous spectrum of colourful identification may be little more than a cleverly marketed, fabulously flirty ;) ideology aimed at capturing the malleable minds of the young and vulnerable who might spend their lives staunchly defending their right to be who they are, saying nothing of note.

I can hear the voices of those who are outraged by my conservative (eye roll right wing?) attitude. Many believe that it is harmless, even beneficial to society, to “update” words and their meanings and implications in accord with progress and inclusivity (another day!). But I argue that it is a troubling example of Orwellian doublethink, and William Lutz’s doublespeak, whereby language is used to narrow, limit or even prevent thought. And we don’t even notice it. So busy are we with re-branding ourselves and maintaining the woke outrage at our/others’ oppression. Now that digital fact checking has been outsourced and Googling the answers to all life’s problems rids us of the need for a hard copy dictionary or reference book of any kind (let alone an inner or spiritual authority), history and philosophy and science and well, anything really, might be updated arbitrarily and as necessary with no need for veracity or verification, and no trace of what was there before…

And then, like Kamala so often says, we can truly be “unburdened by what has been…” 

Groucho Marx gives voice to his maverick trickster rebel grand air trine ~ Sun~Mercury(Rx)(~Uranus) in Libra ~ Moon~Neptune~Pluto (~North Node) in Gemini ~ Jupiter in Aquarius