Embrace the Uneven Earth: Why Fighting Natural Inequality is Destroying Civilisation, By Brian Simpson

The cosmos is not fair. Some are born swift, some slow. Some brilliant, some average. Some beautiful, some plain. Some groups cluster toward one end of the bell curve, others toward another. This is not a moral scandal; it is the raw material of life itself. Every oak began as an acorn that outcompeted a thousand others. Every lioness that eats tonight was faster or stronger or luckier than the one that starves. Nature has no affirmative-action program, no diversity office, no reparations tribunal. It simply varies, selects, and moves on.

Yet for the past seventy-five years the West has been engaged in a vast, utopian experiment: to pretend that human beings and human groups are interchangeable parts in a great machine of "equity." When the outputs refuse to equalise, when the gaps stubbornly persist or even widen, the progressive response is never to question the premise. It is to double the dosage: more programs, more quotas, more censorship, more guilt, more punishment for noticing. The result is not a more just society. It is a society that is eating its own foundations.

We were told that if we could just smooth away every natural difference, we would finally arrive at paradise. Instead, we have arrived at a place where:

A child who reads at a college level in third grade is held back so he doesn't "make others feel bad."

Universities admit students with SAT scores 300–400 points below their peers because anything else would be "systemic racism," then watch those students sink, blame the water for being wet, and lower the passing bar again.

Companies spend billions on DEI consultants to hit racial and gender targets that have nothing to do with building better products, then act shocked when planes almost fall out of the sky and bridges collapse.

A white working-class boy from Appalachia is told he carries "privilege" and must atone for sins he never committed, while a Nigerian prince's daughter with a 150 IQ and a trust fund is officially classified as "marginalised."

Entire academic disciplines now define "truth" as whatever reduces the performance gap, even if it requires torching two millennia of accumulated knowledge.

This is not progress. This is civilisational autoimmune disease: the body attacking its own healthy tissue because it has been taught to see variation as a pathogen.

The alternative is simpler, cheaper, and infinitely more humane: accept that inequality is baked into reality and stop trying to repeal the laws of biology with the laws of men.

1.Let the fast run faster. Gifted programs, merit-based elite universities, and unapologetic excellence are not "unfair"; they are the only way a society discovers what is possible. Suppressing them to spare feelings is like banning telescopes because most people can't see Jupiter's moons with the naked eye.

2.Judge the individual, not the average. A Black kid with a 140 IQ and perfect pitch should be fought over by every conservatory on Earth. A white kid who can barely read at 18 deserves real help, not a lecture about his "privilege." Treat people as individuals and the statistics take care of themselves.

3.Stop lying to children. Tell them the brutal, liberating truth: life is a competition, the starting lines are staggered, and no amount of wishing will move yours. But effort, character, and cunning still count for a very great deal. That message produces grit. The current message produces resentment.

4.Abandon the fantasy of proportional representation in every field. If men are, on average, more obsessed with things and women with people, then mechanical engineering and nursing will never be 50–50, short of coercion. Forcing the numbers only guarantees mediocrity and misery.

5.Recognize that some cultures and some population averages really do produce better outcomes on certain dimensions. Pretending otherwise doesn't make the crime statistics or the patent counts or the Olympic medal tables disappear; it just makes honest discussion impossible and rational policy radioactive.

6.Protect the commons, not the lowest common denominator. A society that orients itself around the needs and feelings of its least capable members will soon have nothing left to offer its most capable ones. Those most capable members will leave, or stop producing, or both. See California, 2025 edition.

Every time we tear down another structure built on the assumption that talent and effort should be rewarded, things do not get fairer. They get worse. The power goes out more often. The bridges creak. The hospitals misdiagnose. The best minds emigrate or retreat into crypto and compounds. The middle class shrinks. The underclass grows more hopeless because no one will tell them the truth. And the elite who engineered the whole mess, retreat behind ever-higher walls, still lecturing the rest of us about equity from the safety of their gated compounds.

There is a saner path.

Build a civilisation that says: "We cannot make you equal, but we can make you free. We will not lie to you about your starting point, but we will not artificially cap your finish line either. Run as fast as you can. Help those who stumble if you choose, but do not demand that the fleet-footed carry the lame on their backs for the entire race. That is not compassion; it is sabotage of the species."

The progressive war on inequality is the most destructive delusion in human history, because it mistakes a description of reality (people differ) for a prescription (people must not). The result is not equality; it is universal decline dressed up as moral superiority.

Inequality is not a bug. It is the feature that turned a naked ape on the African savanna into a creature that walks on the moon. Stop trying to debug life. You will only crash the program.

Let the oak grow tall. Let the acorns that can't compete nourish the soil. That is how forests, and civilisations, have always worked. Anything else is just slow-motion suicide disguised as kindness.

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