This is a must read. It is an excellent description as well as an assessment of how we got where we are right now politically and leadership class wise.
The root cause is that mediocrity generally abhors exceptionalism. In other words, people with average or lower intelligence and abilities are threatened, offended, depressed, and multiple other negatives when it comes to dealing with people who have far more ability than they do.
It is not universal by any means, as there are plenty of people that appreciate what others who are exceptional have been able to do for them. Many people strive for excellence in their own ways. They see the positives in people who far exceed and outperform the masses.
But many are quick to fall in line with all sorts of left-wing charlatans who come along and tell them that they are being oppressed by the exceptional people. Once they are convinced of that, they can be convinced make all kinds of choices, such as in the voting booth, that are actually completely detrimental to them personally, and also detrimental to just about everyone else except those charlatans in power.
The modern day ruling class on the left has perfected their persuasions to the point that Western Civilization is facing destruction from multiple evil factions that are taking advantage of large numbers of useful idiots worldwide. Unlike the total scam that is the global warming scare, that is an actual existential threat.
Congratulations to the modern Western ruling class! You inherited democracy, constitutional liberty, modern science, industrial civilization, and the fucking Moon landing, then somehow concluded that the whole magnificent achievement was embarrassing.
What an extraordinary collection of geniuses.
Standing before the Parthenon, Marco Rubio exposed the intellectual bankruptcy of these self-appointed guardians of enlightenment. The ancient Greeks built upward. They celebrated excellence, competition, ambition, and the relentless pursuit of greatness.
Our modern cultural aristocracy? They've turned lowering standards into a moral crusade.
Imagine explaining this bullshit to the people who built the Parthenon.
“We've discovered that expecting excellence is exclusionary, competition hurts feelings, and exceptional achievement creates uncomfortable inequalities.”
The Greeks would have wondered how civilization survived long enough to produce such spectacular idiots.
Their intellectual descendants explored the world, built cathedrals, unlocked the laws of physics, conquered impossible engineering challenges, and sent astronauts hurtling toward the Moon.
Today's credentialed mediocrities hold conferences about why celebrating those accomplishments is problematic.
And these sanctimonious clowns expect applause.
They condemn the history that produced their freedoms, sneer at the patriotism that sustained their nations, and congratulate themselves for dismantling the standards that made extraordinary achievements possible.
They've even managed to transform national prosperity into a source of guilt. Imagine being handed the accumulated achievements of twenty-five centuries and deciding your greatest contribution should be an apology.
That's one hell of a résumé.
The Parthenon survived empires, invasions, and twenty-five centuries of history.
Our modern cultural gatekeepers can barely survive the possibility that somebody might outperform somebody else.
And here's the most breathtaking arrogance of all: people whose highest intellectual achievement is finding new reasons to lower the bar have appointed themselves the moral authorities qualified to tear down the civilization that raised it.
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