Form: Short Note

ON DIVERSITY

When I use the term ‘diversity’, I am not terribly concerned with race. I am concerned with culture: institutions, myths, traditions, habits, norms, metaphysical value judgement unstated but universal to the traditions.

I care only about race in the senses that (a) people vote as racial blocs, and (b) people are less re-distributive with genetic distance. and (c) Racial groups tend (in the lower classes) to value in-group signals more that out-group signals, and sometimes intentionally so (keep ’em in strategy). Some cultures have very strong normative rules and do a better job of inclusion than we do. Some cultures and races are better at integrating that others. (None of us care too much about east Asian Americans).

I care mostly about conflict and the distraction and expense of conflict over power, access to power, privilege, status signals, and opportunity. I would much prefer that we lived under a constitutional monarchy where we could live in our own little tribal villages, with our own laws, and the monarch was only interested in generating revenue for himself by getting us to trade and cooperate. And where we have no access to power, so the ONLY POWER we can exercise is in the market. This worked extremely well for Austrian Jews for example. And I’d prefer it worked extremely well for all of us.

Diversity works. But diverse desire for control of others does not.