Fighting the Homogenous Regime of Dull Diversity

Fighting the Homogenous Regime of Dull Diversity | Jerry Salyer | CWR



A review of James Kalb’s new book, Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It


“[O]ne cannot abstract from the
historical situation of the nation or attack the cultural identity of the
people. Consequently, one cannot passively accept, still less actively support,
groups which by force or by the manipulation of public opinion take over the
State apparatus and unjustly impose on the collectivity an imported ideology
contrary to the culture of the people.”

– Instruction on Christian
Freedom and Liberation, Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith

Clearly it is not science but
rather scientism which is central to the society depicted in Aldous Huxley’s
1931 science fiction classic, Brave New World.  Toward the end of this dystopian novel about
a hedonistic global order comprised of shallow, self-absorbed clones, one
member of the ruling elite admits that he and his fellow rulers are deeply
suspicious of any sort of intellectual exploration.  “Science is dangerous,” explains the World
Controller, “we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.” True, the
elite constantly bombards its biomanufactured subjects with propaganda about
scientific achievements, yet what slogans like “Science Is Everything” actually
refer to is not science as traditionally understood but a kind of god, an
absolute authority figure which demands unquestioning obedience to the status
quo in exchange for the creature comforts of advanced technology.  Science as the pursuit of truth has long
since been banished by the soft-totalitarian global government, since such
truth might provoke reflection about the ultimate nature of the cosmos and
thereby destabilize society.

I found myself recalling all this
as I read James Kalb’s new book, Against
Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and
What to Do About It (Angelico
Press, 2013).  A timely,
incisive work, Against Inclusiveness builds upon themes introduced in
Kalb’s previous work, The Tyranny of Liberalism, and presents a precise,
methodical examination of the real-life dystopia we inhabit.  “[S]cientism and postmodernism go together,”
Kalb observes, “and the two can exist independently of actual science.”  The rationalist who denies the soul, the
deconstructionist who denies the ability to know anything at all, and the
globalist who denies national identity are all working together to dehumanize
the planet, as it turns out:

In effect
scientism tells us that there are no transcendent goods, just desires, that
there are no essences of things that we should respect, and that the world is
what we make of it.  From this it follows
that the rational approach to politics, social life, and morality is to treat
the world as a resource and turn the social order into a kind of machine for
giving people in equal measure whatever they happen to want, as long as what
they want fits the smooth working of the machine.

Human beings themselves become
mere cogs, continues Kalb. “To demand inclusiveness is to demand that these
human components be distinguished only by reference to the demands of the
machine and otherwise be treated as interchangeable.”

Neutral though the social machine
purports to be, it inevitably exhibits de facto preferences.

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