I perform miracles daily.  It starts with getting out of bed.  After that, little things like walking on water, dodging bullets, and outsmarting cats are just little parlor tricks.

Still.  I'm just short of obsessed with the idea that a "consensus" as vast and widespread as can now be created is a complete waste of brainpower resource.  It's the difference between being wired in series or parallel; the current increases as you add units but the voltage may or may not.

I hear a lot about "diversity" and the value of it.  I've seen engineered "diverse" groups... they're a bunch of people of varying skin colors, genders, ethnic background... a conscious and artificially forced selection of people collected on the basis of...STUFF THAT DOESN'T MATTER.

First off, aren't we told that?  And second off, isn't it true?

If forced exclusion on the basis of skin color is "bad"... (because it judges a person by an irrelevant attribute) then how is forced inclusion on the basis of skin color "good"?  It's the same attribute and the same irrelevancy, right...?  What AM I not getting here? I've never put a "value" on skin color.  It's irrelevant to the value of a person.  So if it's wrong to call any given skin color "bad" then how can it be right to call any one "good"?

And back to that "diverse" group... yeh I've seen those.  Usually it's a bunch of people who all look different and think pretty much alike.  That gives you diversity in appearance (irrelevant) and a lack of diversity in thinking (the most relevant attribute a person can have).  When you have a group that
thinks alike (for whatever reason) you have one person.

Now.  Why.  Why dehumanize people like that?  Why waste mind-share?

Easy one. Because it's easier to herd sheep than cats. A herd assembled for the benefit of the herdsmen is likely not maximized for the benefit of the herd.  Soon you start hearing "Well, you know, we all have to make sacrifices"... generally this is uttered by those collecting the sacrifices at the other end.

A herd of sheep will go wherever the rest of them go. A herd of cats will locate all the warm spots.

Big difference.

—Ron Copis