Diversity paradox

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The paradox at the heart of the diversity military industrial complex: on one hand, pluralism: we value diverse, differentiated perspectives and respect and protect the varying cultural traditions which are the midwife to these perspectives, reinforcing minority voices; on the other hand we expect participants to subscribe wholesale to a set of moral and political views which are the idiosyncratic end-product of a particular political program western neoliberal programme which cautions against in-group and out-group distinctions which were the very underpinnings of t he at cultural diversity in the first place.

Neoliberalism sanctifies diversity, but counsels homogeneity. It is, ultimately, entropic: once what valuable diverse perspective exists, it can be assured and assimilated into a global cultural corpus where there is no longer and diversity.

“Inclusivity” and “cultural appropriation” different ways of saying the same thing.

Now also there is no single coherent argument seeing out exactly how Fukuyama’s end-of-history phase of enlightened post history is meant to work. Perhaps — because one is not possible?