Diversity - The New God
A 3-minute executive review.
There are words that sound so beautiful, we forget to ask questions.
"Diversity" is one of them.
For decades I walked past the word without really thinking about it. It was just there. On posters. In speeches. In advertising. In politics.
Everywhere.
And. Every. Where.
One of those words that sounded good and warm, and that no one really questioned.
But slowly I began to wonder. Because why on earth had diversity suddenly become the answer to everything?
Why was it elevated to some kind of all-encompassing truth that should stand above all other values? And why did we start sacrificing to it, as if it were God himself?
So I started digging into it - and here's what I found.
It actually started innocently enough.
Or with good intentions, one could say.
After the horrors of the world wars, they wanted to create a new narrative.
Never again hatred, never again racism, never again war between peoples.
It sounded right - to see 'difference' as a value, not just something you had to tolerate, but something you should cultivate.
And the more the word was said, the stronger it became. Diversity sounded like peace, like love, like inclusivity. Who could be against it?
But somewhere along the way, something happened. They discovered how powerful the word's force was. How it could be used as a magic wand. Especially politically and ideologically.
Because with diversity in hand, you could signal goodness without doing anything concrete. You could force critics into silence, because who would dare ask questions without being branded an enemy of peace and inclusivity? And you could gather power among those who owned the definition of the word - because only they decided what was "true" diversity, and what was not.
Thus diversity became not just a hope, but a tool. A political ideological hammer and a moral weapon.
Diversity didn't just become an ideal. It became a dogma that filled the entire zeitgeist. A religion without God. And therefore it grew in strength - from a thought to something resembling a creed.
In the 60s and 70s, the idea grew in academic circles. Sociologists and so-called postcolonial theorists turned their gaze toward the West. Now we were no longer civilization's engine, but the sinner who had to atone for the past.
Diversity became the solution, and all cultures were therefore declared 'equally valuable'.
And here there's a need for a timeout -
Because what does that actually mean?
If all cultures are equally valuable, it means that no culture can stand as norm or benchmark anymore.
No one may say - "Here is something that is better, truer or more fruitful."
Because everything must be reduced to the same. And we're supposed to believe that they all lead to the same good outcome for humans. Even though anyone with two grams of sense can tell themselves it's a lie.
Because cultures are not neutral. They shape people radically differently. Some create freedom, trust and prosperity - others create fear, submission and stagnation.
And to claim that everything is equally valuable is not tolerance - it's to abolish our ability to judge, distinguish and defend what actually works. It's to say that truth doesn't exist, and that everything must flow.
Back on track, regardless of this obvious lack of logic and coherence -
In the UN and EU it therefore quickly became a fundamental principle - difference was not a condition, but a mission.
Nation-states, traditions and particular cultures stood in the way of the great integration. And Diversity was the key to dissolving it.
And when corporations in the 90s and 00s took up the word, it became marketing. A Global Mega Trend that could be used and milked for all it was worth to sell your product - your identity.
A badge of goodness you could hang on yourself - "Look, we're modern, responsible, inclusive. We're the good ones."
And that simultaneously explains to you why it became so strong and got such indescribable tailwind.
Because it spoke to feelings. And even more strongly to our ego, self-identification and desire to signal something - without having done the inner work.
"See me. I am only light."
Diversity was easy to love, easy to declare yourself for. Because who doesn't want to be inclusive, kind and peaceful?
But precisely for that reason, the word also became dangerous.
Because when something sounds like love, criticism becomes almost impossible. When you said no to diversity, you were - in their eyes - saying yes to hatred.
Even if it didn't fit...
But the false opposition suited what they wanted. So that way, you could make yourself unassailable - if only you could make it plausible that you were an evil, regressive or hateful person if you didn't sympathise without asking questions.
"Repeat and parrot what we say - or face the consequences. Because we're coming to take everything from you if you don't join in and march together with us!".
And thus the Cancel God was born.
We've heard that voice before...
And so diversity became a moral weapon. A dogma you could confess to in order to feel good, and which could crush critics as heretics.
But a dogma can only grow so strong if the ground is already fertilised for it.
After the war, the West became convinced that everything that awakened strong feelings and belonging must be dangerous. The ideas that had once (perhaps always) carried civilization forward - God, Nation, Flag, Family, Tradition, History, Culture, Truth - were demonised and one-sidedly presented as the primary sources of hatred, war and oppression.
As R.R. Reno describes in 'The Return of the Strong Gods' - we were governed by a new orthodoxy, where "weak gods" - that is, words, concepts and values without strong force and natural pull - like openness, neutrality, technocracy and tolerance were elevated to the highest ideals. Everything that bound people to each other through faith, identity and belonging was dismantled.
And when these are banished, man is left in a vacuum. What we've all experienced as the absence of belonging, increasing meaninglessness and lack of depth in existence and our role - in the same period.
But in that vacuum, a new message could grow - a message that promised community, meaning and morality - WITHOUT the binding ties.
And what happens when a society loses its faith? When Christianity's narrative is pushed out of the centre?
A void emerges.
And in this void we placed Diversity.
It became a new God. All-encompassing, all-embracing, beyond criticism. An idea you should bow to, sacrifice to, speak in its name.
But what was the point?
Officially - peace, coexistence, a world without wars.
An aim everyone desires.
Unless you're an idiot.
But in reality it instead became the dissolution of those distinctive features that stood in the way of global integration.
The nation. The family. The faith. The tradition.
Everything that gave us direction, hierarchy and meaning was reduced to noise. Because if everything was EQUALLY valuable, nothing could be important.
That's what you've experienced growing in strength over recent decades. To the now almost comical and hysterical level - where we must pretend that men can be women and vice versa - which you can now in several Western countries receive punishment for contradicting publicly on social media.
You MUST say what is a lie - because otherwise you don't kneel before the Diversity God.
And here we stand now.
Europe, which has never lacked diversity. From England, France, Spain and Germany to the proud Eastern Europeans, the Northerners and the Mediterranean peoples - a wealth of culture, history and tradition.
An abundance of diversity, expression, arrangement, ideas, articulation, distinctiveness and difference from innermost to outermost.
But - apparently - it was the wrong kind of diversity. Because it was built on difference with common direction. On a common hierarchy. On belief in something greater.
And therefore it had to go.
Today many ordinary people can see it.
Diversity without common values is not strength. It's conflict. It's war. It's difference so deep that it can only be resolved by one submitting to the other.
A desire many who have come here - clearly express both the aim and the wish for.
It's worth understanding.
The West flourished because we placed society's trust higher than the tribe's. Christianity's genius.
Because Christianity opened a path no other religion or culture had managed:
It created a common space where people could meet as individuals before God - not merely as members of a clan or a tribe.
It placed dignity, truth and love above blood ties and lineage.
And it introduced the idea that we could be different and still belong together, because we shared a greater story than our own.
That was Christianity's architecture - a faith that could span peoples, languages and nations - and gradually unite us more and more broadly without erasing differences, but by placing them in a higher hierarchy based on Truth, Freedom and Love. Fundamental pillars in man's natural inner arrangement and orientation.
The mistake was believing that other cultures would improve it.
It's about time, even for the most hardcore civic liberals and anarchists to recognise.
What we're standing in the middle of.
It's not just politics.
It's a faith struggle.
A spiritual battle.
And the question is actually quite simple -
What do we believe in?
Above everything else.
And how much will we do to ensure that this faith is passed on to our children and future generations.
Because right now - the lack of faith leads to even more of those consequences that have only grown in strength over the last five decades.
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Good Wednesday, friends
