Comments on: Strategic Plan To-Do List: Maintain & Encourage Diversity

By: Naaman Gibbetts

Naaman Gibbetts — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:52:35 +0000

I always thought “diversity” was the inclusive post-modern reaction to the exclusive “modern” way of life– or, colonialism gone stale.
I can’t help but think that a lot of this is completely arbitrary–as in, what happens really does just happen.
Also, the phrase, “income diversity” sounds like the familiar American mantra of “class distinction? what? No, no, EVERYONE has a shot at the American dream…”, and “we don’t want a class war here folks–look what happened to the French aristocracy. We need diversity.”
“People don’t make people rich, money does.”

By: Parker Cross

Parker Cross — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:19:11 +0000

We have a Ted’s. He’s my favorite billionaire.

By: karass

karass — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 03:29:55 +0000

We have to value Swedes? Ooooo, this diversity thing is going to be tough. (Just kidding, I’m going to try hard to befriend a billionaire and be more inclusive. Anyone know where the billionaires in Decatur hang out?)

By: TeeRuss

TeeRuss — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:50:50 +0000

You are right, Decatur is conservative. It is a community based on traditional modes of living – small town, mixed use, walkable, etc. For thousands and thousands of years, humankind formed families, communities, societies, and cultures around these physical and political characteristics.

Then the automobile age came along. And the globalization of commerce. And the megasizing of municipalities, with the attendant bureaucracy and corruption and inefficiencies.

Decatur resists the progressive urge of this age.

Conservatism, like Decatur, is not retrograde. It is not anachronistic. It is respect for the inherited wisdom of generations of our predecessors. It is the understanding that tried and true is better than new and improved.

I appreciate that. I can’t speak for anyone else around here, but my guess is that many conservatives are not fighting it, just making fun of the diversity shibboleth. It has been so abused that it is no longer respected. When the diversity boosters start valuing CEOs, billionaires, Swedes, etc. as much as they do anyone else on the spectrum, it’ll be easier to take it seriously. As is, “diversity” is just an attempt at atonement.

By: TeeRuss

TeeRuss — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:25:23 +0000

“We’ve got both kinds of music – Country, AND Western”.