The underlying bias of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
The following is my subjective opinion.
Previously I offered my understanding that we live within a global self-organizing system in which we all play a part. And that the feminine essence seeks unity, harmony and agreement. It’s a vitally important essence that doesn’t just hold families and groups together, it is also what holds everything together.
At a fundamental level there are, lets call them, ‘feminine particles’ which tend to blend, bind and bunch together in a gluey undifferentiated ‘sameness’. Known as bosons, they are elementary ‘force-carriers’ that provide all the fundamental attractive forces in the universe (e.g. nuclear, magnetic, electrical). They hold atoms, molecules, cells and organs together, as functional entities.
In light of those subatomic attractive forces, the feminine propensity toward togetherness, unity, agreement, harmony and sameness, can be seen as the human embodiment of that basic force, which is one of inclusion.
As we might expect, at the root level of life there are complementary, let’s call them, ‘masculine particles’ that stay resolutely firm, individual, hard-shelled, and when they interact they bounce off each other like marbles, or billiard balls. They will not share their space. Known as fermions they are different, separate, and do not blend, bind and bunch together like those ‘feminine particles’ mentioned above. The masculine tendency toward being individual, separate, apart, different and disagreeable can be seen as the human embodiment of that basic force, which is one of exclusion [1]. As some physicists have quipped, fermions are “antisocial” while bosons are “gregarious.”
My earlier mention of living within a self-organizing system means those two complementary tendencies (of inclusion and exclusion) are necessary and vital to any vibrant and compassionate culture. As covered previously, compassion for fellow humans and animals, requires an individual to feel, to empathize.
The attempt to ‘de-individualize’ citizens toward some illusory ‘selfless’ collectivist ideal, will not extinguish the natural, fundamental impetus toward individuality. There are some who attempt to deny, or detach from that fundamental impetus, by seeking an illusory ‘oneness’ devoid of all individuality. As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement opined, life on the basis of detachment “has not only destroyed the path of realization but led the seekers of Truth continuously astray. Indeed it has left them without the possibility of ever finding the goal.”[2].
In a similar vein, much has been said, in recent times, of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), without a complementary, and necessary Individuality, Opportunity and Exclusion. Diversity is diversity of groups (typically of race and/or gender). Equity is equality of outcome among groups. Inclusion is inclusion of various groups within some aberrant, illusory, perverse ideal. Note in being group-orientated, there is a complete and utter absence of any implication of individuality, or of any respect for individual sovereignty, agency and responsibility. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion can bee seen as a pathological bias that denies the root impetus of life to be and become, with inviolate individuality, responsibility and agency.
Any long-term attempt to repress what is fundamental to life – our free-wheeling, rambunctious energy, as compassionate individuals – will eventually erupt outwards like a volcano, spewing out vitriol and destruction in a violent outburst, or implode into illness and disease. This eruption of vitriol and abuse is often demonstrated by those who bias heavily toward ‘selfless’ collectivism (left-wing), as well as by those who bias heavily toward ‘selfish’ individualism (right-wing). A heavy bias toward either, in isolation of the other, does not naturally accompany, or engender a rich, loving, creative life.
Those in authority who do not seek to provide the structures and conditions whereby people (of both sexes) are able to speak freely, to be individuals with differing opinions free of censorship, while being equally accommodated within a shared, common humanity, are repressing (or perhaps more appropriately, are attempting to repress) the fundamental impetuses of Nature.
Insofar as physical life is self-organizing, repeated denials of natural and necessary impetuses (that are commensurate with the Golden Rule mentioned previously) are not sustainable, irrespective of short-term benefits that might be accrued by those in authority.
Note 1. Fermions obey the Pauli Exclusion Principle. They are ‘exclusive’ - they do not share their space. Bosons are ‘inclusive’, sharing their space.
Note 2. Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing: Exploring The frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine.
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