On Egalitarianism

From the pens of others-

Enforcement of the egalitarian fiction is not a moral or scientific imperative; it is merely political. It is terribly short-sighted, for it corrupts both science and society. However, just as the fiction is sustained by small untruths, so can it be broken down by many small acts of scientific integrity. This requires no particular heroism. All that is required is for scientists to act like scientists - to demand, clearly and consistently, respect for truth and for free inquiry in their own settings, and to resist the temptation to win easy approval by endorsing a comfortable lie.

In egalitarian societies, instructions and signals are anonymous (though publicity, advertisement, social pressure to conform, unquestioned slogans) expressions of what has been called a "soft ideology," so that people internalize them and respond to them as expected. The resulting neutral culture uses a meaningless wooden language, so nondescript and "safe" that it denies meaning and distinction, the very function of language. And, it is not very different from the Party-approved communication in communist regimes.

Thomas Molnar

This country is so seized by our civic religion, egalitarianism, that it just averts its gaze from anything that would seem to detract from that central ethic we have that everybody is equal, that perfect societies can be built with the goodwill of people.

Just as in the seventeenth century, it is the signed up communicators of official Truth who are the menace, not ordinary people who know full well that natural equality is a myth.

But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them. It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably and in such slow degree as that the evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be pari passu filled up by free white laborers. If on the contrary it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.

Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white - separate and unequal.

Not only has mandatory desegregation failed to produce educational and social benefits for most minority children but also research shows it can lead to adverse consequences for some.

I suggest that it is a dereliction of duty for us to continue to put up with the egalitarian dogma. It is immoral to know, or even suspect, the truth and to remain silent. Although rational people are not immune to data, they are also influenced by the judgment of their peers. If more scientists would speak openly about the views they now voice only in private, our world would become not only a safer place, but a more enlightened one as well.

Confronted by such phenomena, the scientific investigator must counsel realism, especially after the many years in which idealistic utopian endeavours have been predominant in the educational arena. Clearly, IQ is of such apparent importance as to necessitate that all publicly funded researches into social problems should now be obliged to take IQ into account. What H&M rightly call the "scandal" of intellectuals' neglect of IQ must be ended. Today, as China is now known to have been embarked for the past six years on a vast programme of eugenics (in the Peking area), it is high time for the West to come to terms with IQ and with what is to be done about it. The last Western country to treat the 'g' factor with as much contempt as do Britain and the USA today was Nazi Germany...Today, an equally serious question confronts the West: Can the triumph of Western liberal democracy be long sustained without taking intelligence seriously?

I would be inclined to suggest that however great may be the physical differences between such races...the mental and psychological differences are greater.

And of course if you talk of racial differences at all, it's never long before Liberals catch the scent of Zyklon B.