AND EXCELLENCE? I wish it was true. Cold shower. Reality. Knowledge and Decision

http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20131015132333-272091362-no-diversity-no-excellenceDIVERSITY AND EXCELLENCE?

I wish it was true.

Cold shower. Reality.

Knowledge and Decisions:

The fact is, that diversity comes with high friction outside the upper quintile. All of us in the upper strata of educated people rely less on social peer groups and more on abstract knowledge and personal problem solving than the rest of society does. But the rest of society relies on habits, norms, and peers, within their race, culture, and class, for translating the ideas of the upper quintile into practical and actionable use.

Politics:

Diversity promotes political conflict. When any demographic segment reaches ten percent of the population the members tend to seek rents via political or cultural means. And any benefits that come from diversity are actually from either (a) increases in immigration that create opportunity merely by increasing density and (b) the tendency of urban and intellectual centers to concentrate high talent in small geographic areas.

Academic and State Incentives:

Academia and government have economic incentives to promote diversity. Academia because it does not measure outputs, and because academia seems to sort and filter but not teach anything of value. So the more that can be put through the system, and merely filtered – at high cost to the individual and society for skeptical results, the better for academic businesses. But moreover, the failure of academia to do more than sort, without measuring output criteria, allows the individual to blame society, or race, or some other factor, rather than his or her having invested in an education that did not in fact educated him or her. But instead, created absurd debts for him or her to pay off, so that academic institutional employees can continue to sell defective products, while blaming the failure of that product on ‘society’.

Government has the same incentives. To increase dependency upon the state so that members of the state bureaucracy can extract higher incomes from people who earn wages, organize production, and produce innovation.

The Bubble Is Bursting Right Now.

The education bubble is bursting. And with it, will go the bubble of diversity. That is what the data tells us. And it’s only logical that without artificially inflated wealth from the temporary technical advantage that the west had over the rest of the world, that a great levelling will continue to take place. And without the lubrication of wealth, those political and cultural frictions will become, as we see in politics today, overwhelming.

The west requires universal adoption of the nuclear family in order to retain the high trust civil society. Family structure is the source of all differences in moral codes. And the destruction of the nuclear family has been sufficient to destroy the high trust society.

NOPE

You can’t have it all. YOu can have redistribution without diversity. Or you can have diversity without redistribution. But you cannot have both at once.