Harrison Bergeron
A Dire Warning From Kurt Vonnegut Jr. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_IKlxlwuG4
Most interesting. You've trigerred a few thoughts by your post. Thanks.
Is Jordan Peterson telling this 1961 parable by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as some kind of warning about the ideology of D.I.E?
I think so.
A self-ordained professor’s tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
“Equality,” I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow
Ah, but I was so much older then
I’m younger than that now
- Bob Dylan, My Back Pages, 1964, 3 years after Vonnegut's book. Could he, too, then perhaps see how antithetical was this New Left ideology of D.I.E. to human flourishing, and to human striving for truth and excellence?
I’ve heard you say many times
That you’re better ’n no one
And no one is better ’n you
If you really believe that
You know you got
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
- Bob Dylan, To Ramona, 1964. Could the poet see way back then the soul-destroying nature of D.I.E.?
Some broader questions about D.I.E. in the 21st century.
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Is D.I.E. now the mandatory ideology for the top Fortune 500 HR and PR departments?
[Is it pushed on them by the World Economic Forum / New World Order, that has control of most of the world's investment capital e.g Blackrock and Vanguard in the USA?
What is the 'E' in D.I.E? Is it 'equity' or is it 'equality'? What is the difference? It seems to depend on who you talk to.
Is the D.I.E. ideology mandated by the global elite (WEF/Fortune 500 corporations) in reality an insidious & internally contradictory scam pushed by the powers-that-be in the West for the purposes of mass control?
Contradictory: the "inclusiveness" mantra pushed by the HR departments of the Fortune 500 companies does not extend to the mentally ill, the unkempt, the intellectually impaired and the incompetent. Therefore it has implicit hypocrisy and bias built in. The "inclusiveness" seems to be mainly directed to the rapidly growing LBGTQ+ and non-white/non-male sector of society. After all, heteronormativity, white privilege, and binary gender is oppressive, isn't it?
Footnote: Jordan Petersen can say it better than I. He looks much older in this statement put out 2 years ago under the title "D.I.E. must DIE"
D-I-E must DIE
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Jordan B Peterson
I always loved this author, thanks for posting. 😎