Do you want to know why I think the UK is not only approaching third-world nation status, but will soon be taken over by Somalian pirates wielding egg beaters and pogo sticks?

This is why.

As many as three-quarters of state schools are failing to push their
brightest pupils because teachers are reluctant to promote ‘elitism’,
an Ofsted study says today.

Many teachers are not convinced of the importance of providing more challenging tasks for their gifted and talented pupils.

Bright
youngsters told inspectors they were forced to ask for harder work.
Others were resentful at being dragooned into ‘mentoring’ weaker pupils.

If anything, this type of intellectual communism will be the downfall of the developed world!  Why do I say “intellectual communism?”

Because it’s exemplified by this inane drive to make everyone equal.

We can’t desire achievement, because that makes some people better than others.

We can’t aspire to greatness, because that implies that some are better and more capable than others.

We can’t strive for quality, because that implies some will achieve it more than others.

We can’t praise intelligence and ability because that might hurt the feelings of those who aren’t praised and imply that they’re just not as good as others.

Whereas communism is a social structure where property is communally controlled, and pure communism implies complete equality in a classless society, the intellectual communism to which I refer strives to create a similar system socially.  It downplays achievement and success in a misguided and downright twisted attempt to bring the unsuccessful and incapable to a higher level. Since that’s impossible without actual achievement on the part of those to be brought up, in the practical sense, the only way to make everyone equal is to bring the capable down to the level of the inadequate – to quash the gifted, intelligent and talented so that the indolent and stupid can feel better about themselves. Instead of encouraging hard work and achievement, this type of system simply eliminates success and performance. That way those who can’t or won’t don’t have to feel inadequate.

When you eliminate objective standards for performance and success, what you’re left with is a society filled with mediocrities who don’t push themselves to achieve, but simply rest assured in the knowledge that no one is better than they are.  And when you remove any trace of competition or reward for success, you’ll erase any desire for it.  Why bother, right?  

Elitism isn’t always evil. It’s a sense of pride in who you are and what you have accomplished.  And when you don’t nurture intellect and accomplishment, you’ll raise a society of indolent idiots who will depend on the state to protect them from everything, don’t value their lives enough to make something of them, and certainly don’t care enough to achieve and succeed.

This is the type of society that will easily surrender its sovereignty, its property and its personal responsibility to any tyrant that comes along.

I look at it as a cautionary tale.

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