One big problem I see with DEI, especially in the medical field, is that it turns legitimate problems into just another example of the left crying racism.
For example: black people with skin cancer are more likely to die than white people, even though they get skin cancer less frequently. This isn't an example of racism in the medical field. Darker skin has more melanin, which is better protection against sun damage––and as a result, black people tend to use less sunscreen and get fewer skin checks. Skin cancer spots often appear dark brown as well, making them more difficult to find. By the time it's caught, it's often already at an advanced stage.
Is this a problem? Absolutely. But thanks to DEI, there are two ways to fall off the horse. Liberals can say "It's all racism!" which lets them fund useless bureaucratic "research" positions and does nothing to save lives. And conservatives can assume any racial disparity is just a leftist ploy to implement Marxist ideology and should be ignored.
Instead, we can and should acknowledge that different people have different risks and tendencies with different diseases––without calling it racism.
In an ironic twist, DEI just lets more people die.
'One new hire is an assistant professor of interpersonal communication who studies “how undocumented immigrants draw on communication identity management and advocacy strategies to challenge [structural] barriers.” Another is a behavioralist who “applies social theories to public health, focusing on the intersections between individual, interpersonal, and structural factors contributing to health inequities.”'
If you can't dazzle 'em with results, you can always baffle 'em with bullshyt. That's the bureaucratic way to collect more private money for self-perpetuation.
"Communication identity management and advocacy strategies"? Who wants or needs to "manage" identities? And what on God's Green Earth is a "communication identity"? A deliberately fabricated public image? Does it mean "ego"? T.S. Eliot's "face to meet the faces that you meet"? WT actual F?
"Intersections between individual, interpersonal, and structural factors contributing to health inequities"?
Individual factor: being poor, ignorant, uninsured, or reluctant to see a doctor?
Interpersonal factor: getting bad health advice from your fat diabetic cousin?
Structural factor: the fantasy that somehow the bureaucratic organization of a corporation or institution produces "racist" conditions--the Holy Grail of race grifters?
I suppose if you can't find evidence of overt racism, you have to dig deeper into these "factors."
Goddamnit, racism is a quality of human relations, how one human being acts toward another. It is irrelevant how one becomes racist. In my experience, one can adopt a racist attitude as a result of the overall negative encounters one has with people of a different race, the hasty generalization. Anyway, once these mercenary hyper-intellectual twits in the anti-racism/DIE industry fail to find actual racism, they need to invent something like "structural or institutional" racism . . . something so abstract that it borders on the supernatural, an evil that is everywhere and nowhere. Come to think of it, the need to manufacture evil where none exists motivated the invention of "whiteness."
Baffled, I went clicking through exhibit one's profile. Listened to the videos of the women in the program she founded...and they literally said they just needed someone to talk to. Still baffled.
Chris, should we be lucky enough to get a Trump win, its REALLY time to clean up the swamp.
Everyone of these radicalized institutions needs an enema, and not the painless type. They WILL become answerable to America again.
BTW something is happening in America that I never quite expected: Its become cool to support Trump. Its a love affair that's been earned through blood, relentless travel, and talking to anyone that would listen. I'm most encouraged at college campuses where the woke mind virus is being thrown overboard by common sense.
That said, no one should be taking a victory lap yet like Clinton 2016. There is still lot to do.
In boxing there is term called "shoeshine". Its where you throw a large flury of punches at the end of the round to try and influence the judges scoring.
Trump is the King of the campaign "shoeshine". He will be EVERYWHERE the last 10 days appealing for every last vote.
God Bless Donald John Trump. Lets make American great again, free again, and healthy again.
I would not get my hopes up too much. During his first term, the federal government got larger (more spending, more bureaucrats employed) and many of this DEI stuff (or their equivalent pre-2020) was already getting money and not getting killed.
The situation is different this time though. Trump has the support of some elite groups that do want to reduce government size, kill DEI and soften the regulations. But I don’t think Trump is really personally ideologically committed to killing DEI/bureaucracy.
I'll be interested to see how a second Trump term differs from the first, assuming he wins. He's been acknowledging he made some mistakes (at least with the some of the people he put in his administration), and like you said, he has support of people looking to get rid of DEI. (Not to mention some of the highest points in his first term were because of people he appointed, like SCOTUS judges, more than his direct actions.)
Another variable that would make his second term a different animal is the fact that new issues were brought into the nation for the next president to address, most pointedly the millions of new people of illegal status, with those who need immediate deportation while the border is secured, along with two foreign wars. This is no walk in the park, but it’s why he is running.
Trump understands the aspect of human life which Prof. Robert Cialdini calls "Influence". Or, the evolutionarily built-in responses of most people to particular experiences.
Thank you for your research and excellence in actual journalism. So much rot and wasteful spending on “medical research”. And this at a time when Americans have never been sicker! It’s a disgrace. I pray that Trump wins and RFK Jr. gets the chance to put his decades long knowledge to work and end this madness and start working to help this country improve our health!
DEI is a Neo Marxist weapon to destroy organizations, businesses and government. When the primary focus is DEI and not the mission of the organization, the mission will eventually fail. DEI is like a metastasizing cancer.
What puzzles me is all the non-leftwing women out there who nontheless support feminism (who consider feminism one of the truths). Do they not see that feminism is a major pillar of DEI, and therefore a big part of the onslaught of totalitarianism?
They could support healthy change instead, by dropping feminism.
The NIH is a damaged organization and even the leading scientific journals, such as Science and Nature, publish DEI focussed articles. It is a tragedy. We see this across the board; lower the standards, introduce absurd fields of study and give money away to fund brainwashing.
The Soviet Union's sciences were afflicted by a swamp of Marxist pseudo-science. Khrushchev, who Dwight Eisenhower called the smartest world leader by a considerable margin, blew this crap away. He knew it was all garbage.
There is a university in Canada which was only ever known for journalism programs, really, that is now opening a Medical School. It is to be based upon DEI, rather than medicine.
Here's my problem: Rufo's efforts notwithstanding, (and I don't know where we would be without him), the reality is that we all understand the racialist and "intellectual" underpinnings of DEI, and we also understand its devastating effect on competence and quality which are the only reliable bulwarks against failure.
How do we proceed? How do we dismantle this system that was specifically designed to fight Western civilization? How do we deal with the indiscriminate accusations of racism? How do we fire hundreds of people and shut down every department that was created to employ them? And, last but not least, how do we demolish the Marxist paradigmatic worldview of oppressor / oppressed?
Optimistically speaking, piecemeal individual efforts attacking this system will eventually coalesce into a movement whose ethical and intellectual pedigree will encourage people in government to begin wholesale reforms.
A Trump Presidency will be a good start in forming this movement, and it will gain momentum if eventually RFK Jr., Gabbard, and Ramaswamy follow him, and people like Rufo and DeSantis and other sympathetic members of Congress gain more power and influence.
There is reason to be hopeful, but much is riding on the upcoming Presidential election.
Sandra, first we have our legislators, who obtained their authority from the consent of the governed. We have the right to express our grievances. We have the courts. This will require many people with the same grievance, and probably many years and charges of racism. But it actually is repetition of existing law.
I have been pointing out exactly the same thing for a very long time now. It is not a matter any longer of people failing to see that these are the problems. It's a matter of "So OK we see the problems....now what do we do about them?"
Have a workable solution? If they did, they would write a book, as opposed to spilling it all on a Substack below-the-line comment, which offers no Intellectual Property rights. Commenters on a Substack always have to play second fiddle to the Substack author too, don'tcha know. They are not given much status, so they are not going to risk an answer here. Besides which, the answer is going to take more than a post.
I have made years of brave attempts, and even I have thrown in the towel. The answers are not within the general framework that most of those in the West have previously used for their thinking about reality. And so they scoff, or their eyes glaze over. The few canaries in the coalmine out here, pack up their tweets and go away.
It’s all bullshit. No one wants to just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”. Shhh, don’t say it! You’ll be called a racist, a homophobe, a Nazi!!!! We’ve got to say it, scream it “This is all bullshit!!! I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!!!”
Steve G, Very succinct and I agree wholeheartedly! We whites have been intellectualizing and pussy-footing around about the disgusting, nasty, horror of racial integration for more than 50 years. It's time to "just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”! We whites have had to pretend that we're all equal and pretend black violence isn't monolithic and pretend that we don't mind if we're passed over for a completely unqualified, incompetent DEI hire! All this nonsense is destroying civilization and we must stop ignoring, and, thus, enabling it and scream it, as you said, “This is all bullshit!!!"
Those who call "bullshit" are typically not of the academic caste and so are denounced as ignorant. I saw this all the time in the early defenses of feminism against critique from outside the university--You're too dim to understand gems like this, from an abstract of a commentary on Judith Butler's theorizing:
'A dual conception of “nature” as “human nature” and the natural world is foreclosed at the moment that inaugurates the textual space in which feminist postmodernism sets to work. This disavowed realm returns on the inside of Butler's theory as a discursive “nature,” which makes constant trouble in regards to the subject's agency, the subject's freedom.'
This sort of stuff gets circulated among those who earn entrance into the hermetic critical studies/feminist academic cult. Nobody reads it deeply because there is no there there. It's all part of an academic edifice designed to generate PhDs in a glutted market. One reason I admire James Lindsay is for his voluntary reading of such stuff in his exposure of the evil that is critical theory and "postmodern neo-Marxism," the ideology these same academics insist either doesn't exist or was invented by people who are too dull to understand "acshual" Marxism and Postmodernism.
It means that they have entered what is colloquially known as the mind-snap. You know....like all of those folks who suddenly fell to COVID Mania, and their mental lights went out.
I've had enough of witch hunts but you know what, we can expunge superstition from the monasteries if we want to, or else close them down. Christopher has given us a model for higher ed. I am not psychic either, yet I foresee further experiments in governmental house-cleaning.
Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI), the replacement of the American merit system with race-based gender-based ideological Marxist quotas, has had catastrophic effects throughout American society. American medicine, American aviation, American education, American politics, the American judiciary etc etc etc have all been fundamentally transformed into the anti-American politicized segments of society that are collapsing America from within. Obama’s Marxist promise to fundamentally transform America is almost complete. If the Marxist Harris/Walz ticket prevails, the sovereignty of the United States of America will be surrendered to the lethally corrupt United Nations and its lethally corrupt World Health Organization, the WHO. With the aid and abetting of the Biden/Harris/Obama regime and the Harris/Walz ticket, the globalist elite political coup in America will finally succeed. What then? The globalist elite will impose its own totalitarian Unistate where you will own nothing and you will have no individual freedom or agency. You will live as a serf in globalism’s new world order of planetary feudalism where there is only compliance or death. VOTER BEWARE!
What are some of the tell-tale signs of a creeping Pathocracy?
You will notice high incompetence at senior ruling levels. You will see a great deal of propaganda --everything will seem to operate on lies. There will be Orwellian Doublespeak going on everywhere. The society will divide against itself. And there will be an acceptance of Death Culture -- as in suicide clusters (State Euthanasia) and unfettered abortion.
Oh yes, and the Mass Formations (known also as Collective Delusions, Shared Psychoses, Folie à plusieurs, and several other terms). Such as a rise in cult activity, gang activity, and the activity of highly threatening/dysfunctional herds such as the COVID Maniacs and the Pro-Hamas mobs.
Ponerology is the study of Pathocracy, or society-wide evil operating politically. Late Polish Psychiatrist Andrew Lobaczewski wrote his classic book, "Political Ponerology" on this phenomenon.
If you do not read the book, at least read the Wikipedia entry.
That is quite the eye-opening article. He describes our current society perfectly, and his definition of totalitarianism is spot-on. Thank you for sharing this.
This article is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of science and medicine. Christopher Rufo does an excellent job exposing how DEI initiatives have compromised the integrity of the NIH, prioritizing ideology over scientific merit. The consequences of this shift are alarming, and Rufo's analysis provides a crucial wake-up call. We need to demand a return to excellence in research and reject policies that undermine the pursuit of truth. Fantastic work—this piece truly sheds light on an important issue that deserves more attention.
One big problem I see with DEI, especially in the medical field, is that it turns legitimate problems into just another example of the left crying racism.
For example: black people with skin cancer are more likely to die than white people, even though they get skin cancer less frequently. This isn't an example of racism in the medical field. Darker skin has more melanin, which is better protection against sun damage––and as a result, black people tend to use less sunscreen and get fewer skin checks. Skin cancer spots often appear dark brown as well, making them more difficult to find. By the time it's caught, it's often already at an advanced stage.
Is this a problem? Absolutely. But thanks to DEI, there are two ways to fall off the horse. Liberals can say "It's all racism!" which lets them fund useless bureaucratic "research" positions and does nothing to save lives. And conservatives can assume any racial disparity is just a leftist ploy to implement Marxist ideology and should be ignored.
Instead, we can and should acknowledge that different people have different risks and tendencies with different diseases––without calling it racism.
In an ironic twist, DEI just lets more people die.
Different community gene pools in this old world may have developed along different lines. To ignore that is to ignore reality.
Your point here applies also to medical risks in males vs. females and vice versa.
"Conservatives can assume any racial disparity is just a leftist ploy to implement Marxist ideology and should be ignored."
Sure. The classic case of "the boy who cried 'wolf.'"
Edit: It just occurred to me to wonder what the DIE people think of something like sickle cell anemia or Tay-Sachs disease.
Excellent distinction!
'One new hire is an assistant professor of interpersonal communication who studies “how undocumented immigrants draw on communication identity management and advocacy strategies to challenge [structural] barriers.” Another is a behavioralist who “applies social theories to public health, focusing on the intersections between individual, interpersonal, and structural factors contributing to health inequities.”'
If you can't dazzle 'em with results, you can always baffle 'em with bullshyt. That's the bureaucratic way to collect more private money for self-perpetuation.
"Communication identity management and advocacy strategies"? Who wants or needs to "manage" identities? And what on God's Green Earth is a "communication identity"? A deliberately fabricated public image? Does it mean "ego"? T.S. Eliot's "face to meet the faces that you meet"? WT actual F?
"Intersections between individual, interpersonal, and structural factors contributing to health inequities"?
Individual factor: being poor, ignorant, uninsured, or reluctant to see a doctor?
Interpersonal factor: getting bad health advice from your fat diabetic cousin?
Structural factor: the fantasy that somehow the bureaucratic organization of a corporation or institution produces "racist" conditions--the Holy Grail of race grifters?
I suppose if you can't find evidence of overt racism, you have to dig deeper into these "factors."
Goddamnit, racism is a quality of human relations, how one human being acts toward another. It is irrelevant how one becomes racist. In my experience, one can adopt a racist attitude as a result of the overall negative encounters one has with people of a different race, the hasty generalization. Anyway, once these mercenary hyper-intellectual twits in the anti-racism/DIE industry fail to find actual racism, they need to invent something like "structural or institutional" racism . . . something so abstract that it borders on the supernatural, an evil that is everywhere and nowhere. Come to think of it, the need to manufacture evil where none exists motivated the invention of "whiteness."
JFC, this gets tiresome.
Baffled, I went clicking through exhibit one's profile. Listened to the videos of the women in the program she founded...and they literally said they just needed someone to talk to. Still baffled.
Chris, should we be lucky enough to get a Trump win, its REALLY time to clean up the swamp.
Everyone of these radicalized institutions needs an enema, and not the painless type. They WILL become answerable to America again.
BTW something is happening in America that I never quite expected: Its become cool to support Trump. Its a love affair that's been earned through blood, relentless travel, and talking to anyone that would listen. I'm most encouraged at college campuses where the woke mind virus is being thrown overboard by common sense.
That said, no one should be taking a victory lap yet like Clinton 2016. There is still lot to do.
In boxing there is term called "shoeshine". Its where you throw a large flury of punches at the end of the round to try and influence the judges scoring.
Trump is the King of the campaign "shoeshine". He will be EVERYWHERE the last 10 days appealing for every last vote.
God Bless Donald John Trump. Lets make American great again, free again, and healthy again.
Rock on Chris!
"Donald Trump's sudden, wild popularity among young Canadians
Poll shows that if young Canadian men decided the U.S. election, Trump could win"
National Post Canada
Oct 18, 2024
Just curious, but last time I checked Canadians can’t vote in USA federal elections. Thanks anyway for a useless poll assumption.
A. never said Canadiens can vote in US Federal elections. You sorely missed the point. I, for one, did not find the comment a useless poll assumption.
Reddog, I thought you knew enough to smarten up by now.
You cannot see the bigger picture yet, can you?
Or is that you just want my attention again?
Got it didn’t I. Thanks A. Have a wonderful day my Canadian neighbor.
You're a rascal.
You entirely missed the point. Perhaps on the wrong page?
Unlike illegals in the US.
"Shoeshine," brilliant!
I would not get my hopes up too much. During his first term, the federal government got larger (more spending, more bureaucrats employed) and many of this DEI stuff (or their equivalent pre-2020) was already getting money and not getting killed.
The situation is different this time though. Trump has the support of some elite groups that do want to reduce government size, kill DEI and soften the regulations. But I don’t think Trump is really personally ideologically committed to killing DEI/bureaucracy.
I'll be interested to see how a second Trump term differs from the first, assuming he wins. He's been acknowledging he made some mistakes (at least with the some of the people he put in his administration), and like you said, he has support of people looking to get rid of DEI. (Not to mention some of the highest points in his first term were because of people he appointed, like SCOTUS judges, more than his direct actions.)
Another variable that would make his second term a different animal is the fact that new issues were brought into the nation for the next president to address, most pointedly the millions of new people of illegal status, with those who need immediate deportation while the border is secured, along with two foreign wars. This is no walk in the park, but it’s why he is running.
Seems he is committed to wiping out the Deep State, especially at the SES level (top level.)
Trump understands the aspect of human life which Prof. Robert Cialdini calls "Influence". Or, the evolutionarily built-in responses of most people to particular experiences.
Thanks for reminding me of that book! Half read on the shelf where I keep half read books. Intriguing insight.
Thank you for your research and excellence in actual journalism. So much rot and wasteful spending on “medical research”. And this at a time when Americans have never been sicker! It’s a disgrace. I pray that Trump wins and RFK Jr. gets the chance to put his decades long knowledge to work and end this madness and start working to help this country improve our health!
DEI is a Neo Marxist weapon to destroy organizations, businesses and government. When the primary focus is DEI and not the mission of the organization, the mission will eventually fail. DEI is like a metastasizing cancer.
Yes, indeed.
What puzzles me is all the non-leftwing women out there who nontheless support feminism (who consider feminism one of the truths). Do they not see that feminism is a major pillar of DEI, and therefore a big part of the onslaught of totalitarianism?
They could support healthy change instead, by dropping feminism.
Yes, it will overtake the organism.
The NIH is a damaged organization and even the leading scientific journals, such as Science and Nature, publish DEI focussed articles. It is a tragedy. We see this across the board; lower the standards, introduce absurd fields of study and give money away to fund brainwashing.
The Soviet Union's sciences were afflicted by a swamp of Marxist pseudo-science. Khrushchev, who Dwight Eisenhower called the smartest world leader by a considerable margin, blew this crap away. He knew it was all garbage.
Lysenko-ism
There is a university in Canada which was only ever known for journalism programs, really, that is now opening a Medical School. It is to be based upon DEI, rather than medicine.
RUN!
The late Ryerson?
Yes, indeed. Now called TMU.
Here's my problem: Rufo's efforts notwithstanding, (and I don't know where we would be without him), the reality is that we all understand the racialist and "intellectual" underpinnings of DEI, and we also understand its devastating effect on competence and quality which are the only reliable bulwarks against failure.
How do we proceed? How do we dismantle this system that was specifically designed to fight Western civilization? How do we deal with the indiscriminate accusations of racism? How do we fire hundreds of people and shut down every department that was created to employ them? And, last but not least, how do we demolish the Marxist paradigmatic worldview of oppressor / oppressed?
Does anyone have a workable solution?
Optimistically speaking, piecemeal individual efforts attacking this system will eventually coalesce into a movement whose ethical and intellectual pedigree will encourage people in government to begin wholesale reforms.
A Trump Presidency will be a good start in forming this movement, and it will gain momentum if eventually RFK Jr., Gabbard, and Ramaswamy follow him, and people like Rufo and DeSantis and other sympathetic members of Congress gain more power and influence.
There is reason to be hopeful, but much is riding on the upcoming Presidential election.
It starts and ends with courage. Courage starts and ends with fearing God and not fearing man.
Sandra, first we have our legislators, who obtained their authority from the consent of the governed. We have the right to express our grievances. We have the courts. This will require many people with the same grievance, and probably many years and charges of racism. But it actually is repetition of existing law.
I have been pointing out exactly the same thing for a very long time now. It is not a matter any longer of people failing to see that these are the problems. It's a matter of "So OK we see the problems....now what do we do about them?"
Have a workable solution? If they did, they would write a book, as opposed to spilling it all on a Substack below-the-line comment, which offers no Intellectual Property rights. Commenters on a Substack always have to play second fiddle to the Substack author too, don'tcha know. They are not given much status, so they are not going to risk an answer here. Besides which, the answer is going to take more than a post.
I have made years of brave attempts, and even I have thrown in the towel. The answers are not within the general framework that most of those in the West have previously used for their thinking about reality. And so they scoff, or their eyes glaze over. The few canaries in the coalmine out here, pack up their tweets and go away.
It’s all bullshit. No one wants to just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”. Shhh, don’t say it! You’ll be called a racist, a homophobe, a Nazi!!!! We’ve got to say it, scream it “This is all bullshit!!! I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!!!”
Steve G, Very succinct and I agree wholeheartedly! We whites have been intellectualizing and pussy-footing around about the disgusting, nasty, horror of racial integration for more than 50 years. It's time to "just say, out loud, “this is bullshit”! We whites have had to pretend that we're all equal and pretend black violence isn't monolithic and pretend that we don't mind if we're passed over for a completely unqualified, incompetent DEI hire! All this nonsense is destroying civilization and we must stop ignoring, and, thus, enabling it and scream it, as you said, “This is all bullshit!!!"
Those who call "bullshit" are typically not of the academic caste and so are denounced as ignorant. I saw this all the time in the early defenses of feminism against critique from outside the university--You're too dim to understand gems like this, from an abstract of a commentary on Judith Butler's theorizing:
'A dual conception of “nature” as “human nature” and the natural world is foreclosed at the moment that inaugurates the textual space in which feminist postmodernism sets to work. This disavowed realm returns on the inside of Butler's theory as a discursive “nature,” which makes constant trouble in regards to the subject's agency, the subject's freedom.'
This sort of stuff gets circulated among those who earn entrance into the hermetic critical studies/feminist academic cult. Nobody reads it deeply because there is no there there. It's all part of an academic edifice designed to generate PhDs in a glutted market. One reason I admire James Lindsay is for his voluntary reading of such stuff in his exposure of the evil that is critical theory and "postmodern neo-Marxism," the ideology these same academics insist either doesn't exist or was invented by people who are too dull to understand "acshual" Marxism and Postmodernism.
Well, you can bag that up in a neat package and call it “compost” but it’s still bullshit.
They're not doing science. "End racism to stop disease" is in fact sorcery.
It means that they have entered what is colloquially known as the mind-snap. You know....like all of those folks who suddenly fell to COVID Mania, and their mental lights went out.
Yep. Might be time for a witch burning.
I've had enough of witch hunts but you know what, we can expunge superstition from the monasteries if we want to, or else close them down. Christopher has given us a model for higher ed. I am not psychic either, yet I foresee further experiments in governmental house-cleaning.
Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI), the replacement of the American merit system with race-based gender-based ideological Marxist quotas, has had catastrophic effects throughout American society. American medicine, American aviation, American education, American politics, the American judiciary etc etc etc have all been fundamentally transformed into the anti-American politicized segments of society that are collapsing America from within. Obama’s Marxist promise to fundamentally transform America is almost complete. If the Marxist Harris/Walz ticket prevails, the sovereignty of the United States of America will be surrendered to the lethally corrupt United Nations and its lethally corrupt World Health Organization, the WHO. With the aid and abetting of the Biden/Harris/Obama regime and the Harris/Walz ticket, the globalist elite political coup in America will finally succeed. What then? The globalist elite will impose its own totalitarian Unistate where you will own nothing and you will have no individual freedom or agency. You will live as a serf in globalism’s new world order of planetary feudalism where there is only compliance or death. VOTER BEWARE!
I keep wondering why there has STILL not been any lawsuits over this illegal practice. DEI is ILLEGAL under article 7 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Well, you have to have an honest and working judiciary, for starters. Who are not in the pocket of the Pathocracy.
We need a plaintiff with standing to file a case, then appeal, then file a writ of certiorari.
in some Western nations, the judiciary has been infiltrated.
What are some of the tell-tale signs of a creeping Pathocracy?
You will notice high incompetence at senior ruling levels. You will see a great deal of propaganda --everything will seem to operate on lies. There will be Orwellian Doublespeak going on everywhere. The society will divide against itself. And there will be an acceptance of Death Culture -- as in suicide clusters (State Euthanasia) and unfettered abortion.
Oh yes, and the Mass Formations (known also as Collective Delusions, Shared Psychoses, Folie à plusieurs, and several other terms). Such as a rise in cult activity, gang activity, and the activity of highly threatening/dysfunctional herds such as the COVID Maniacs and the Pro-Hamas mobs.
In a nutshell, we have a creeping Pathocracy going on. Another word for totalitarianism, or rule by Psychopaths.
Though I am usually more than a little suspicious of Wikipedia, this entry was quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ponerology
Ponerology is the study of Pathocracy, or society-wide evil operating politically. Late Polish Psychiatrist Andrew Lobaczewski wrote his classic book, "Political Ponerology" on this phenomenon.
If you do not read the book, at least read the Wikipedia entry.
That is quite the eye-opening article. He describes our current society perfectly, and his definition of totalitarianism is spot-on. Thank you for sharing this.
Thank you, Double M. It has been my field too. Which is why I press Lobaczewski on everyone.
Thank you—I like a good reading recommendation
I have lots of those, Brigitte. Anytime.
And Harrison Koehli's Substack on Ponerology will knock your socks off.
There an entire Substack devoted to the review and study of the book “Political Ponerology”. Highly recommend. Comments are quite informative as well.
DEI has corrupted EVERYTHING…
This article is a must-read for anyone who cares about the future of science and medicine. Christopher Rufo does an excellent job exposing how DEI initiatives have compromised the integrity of the NIH, prioritizing ideology over scientific merit. The consequences of this shift are alarming, and Rufo's analysis provides a crucial wake-up call. We need to demand a return to excellence in research and reject policies that undermine the pursuit of truth. Fantastic work—this piece truly sheds light on an important issue that deserves more attention.
This should be a major target of Musk's Department of Government Efficiency. Get rid of all this rubbish immediately.