The idol of the age
by Mario Laghos, Artillery Row:
The right should grasp the nettle of equality.
If Britain has a national mission, it is to flatten and reduce itself. Over decades, Britain has guaranteed to all comers that they can enjoy equal rights and even equal outcomes. The words “inclusion” and “equality” are the touchstones for all that is good in our society. We don’t care for valour or excellence anymore — these things are troublesome relics of a bygone age. Today, value is measured only against the will to tolerate and include.
Objectives around equality, diversity and tolerance are now amongst the chief motivators driving every organ of the state. Assertions about the human species and the social world which underpinned Stalinist regimes have become plain facts of our reality. Whether it is the RAF compromising its battlefield capability to discriminate against white men, or the NHS holding maternity classes for “pregnant people”, our institutions are in lockstep as they march toward an end of total and unrelenting sameness.
Our political class surrendered in the face of this long march some time ago. They allowed what Elon Musk would term the mind virus to at first incubate within and then capture the culture. No part of our society can credibly claim to be clean of it — it is now endemic. The coining of the phrase “mind virus” was a helpful one, because until it was minted we did not have the grammar to describe the change happening around us. Words like “woke” and “politically correct” lacked the acidity to describe the virulence of reducing, socially and politically, the native founders of the country to a thing to be moved out of the way, in favour of every other group.
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