DIVERSITY IS A “BAD” We have known for some time now that diversity produces neg

DIVERSITY IS A “BAD”

We have known for some time now that diversity produces negative consequences.

Those consequences are most visible in the reluctance by individuals to contribute to the commons: taxes, redistribution, and even maintenance of common areas. And of course both the willingness and ability to enforce morals and norms.

In the west we have lost the battle for the sacrifice that is necessary for the nuclear family. Our immigrants are accelerating that abandonment and returning maintaining their inbreeding, extended family traditions if paternalistic, and serial marriage if maternalistic. We have lost our anglo saxon rights to freedom along with our constitution. We have lost our obligation to charity and devotion to the commons in the form if voluntary organizations that provided both the moral impetative and institutional framework for our previous civil society. We have lost our right to juridical defense for all regulatory and much legislative law. We have lost the primacy of our common and natural laws. And we have lost our religion and mythology. As well as our unique western identity. In economic terms, we have lost most of the social capital that makes the high trust society possible.

There is some debate that over the medium term the economic benefit of immigration may mask those negative consequences.

But why does diversity create bads?

Because diversity creates a competition of norms and signals. And humans stop paying for norms when their payments are stolen by those with competing norms and signals.

What does that mean?

Traditions and norms matter. They matter because they are prescriptions for an order, or portfolio of types of property. It is not so much that people will forget certain norms and the knowledge that they contain. But that they will refuse to pay for the commons that we call norms, if they find them either bad investments or more commonly A TAX THAT THEY PAY, but which OTHERS CHEAT AND THEREFORE ESCAPE PAYING.

Norms are paid when they are observed. They bear a cost. Every single time. Morals bear a cost. A high one. Every time they are observed.

We humans abhor cheating. And competing sets of norms, especially those that demand less discipline, are licenses to cheat and steal.

Humans will not reward cheaters. In fact they will redouble their efforts to punish them. And in the case of norms, they will fail to pay for the commons. At least they will fail to pay when the value of signaling conformity drops.

And this leads us to the other bit of research: that the purpose of progressive promotion of diversity is just signaling that is available cheaply with little effort.

In other words: the desire for diversity is status seeking.

So some of us signal by our production. Some of us by consumption. And liberals by giving away other people’s money.

Which I find fascinating.