Social Control

This being my first post on this blog, I guess I could succumb to temptation and say too much so I will try and maintain discipline. Qahal never sleeps and wouldn't let me get away with that anyway.
There is a theme that I have been keeping my eye on for some time and I would like to use my first post to discuss this. The theme is social control and it is something that I have come into contact here in Indianapolis for some time though it existed noticeably even when I was in elementary school.

Here was the latest attempt of the powers that be to affect my life and make me more like the drones that buzz about the world of business.

I am sitting for the bar exam in my state. For first time takers, there is a mandatory interview that one must have with a lawyer who I believe volunteers to conduct. The attorney is given all sorts of information about the candidate who is expected to answer some general questions about professional responsibility and the structure of the bar association (Like with trusts that give interest to the bar guild, er... association).

Fine, I am ok with that. Don't commingle funds, don't lie, don't get committed, no sex with people in jail.

But then things get a little weird, (or red if you prefer). The attorney asks me, "Do you think that diversity is important?" "Sure," I waffle. "Do you think it is important to have a diverse legal community?" "What does that mean?" She says, "It means that minorities are represented in the legal community." "I think they will have representation whether their attorney is a minority or not." (She doesn't get my equivocation of "representation" which humors me and gives me a sense of superiority). I conclude, "I think it is more important that we have good lawyers rather than having bad lawyers of all different colors." I am dismissed cooly.
"Do you know about the Indiana Sup. Ct.'s affirmative action program?" No. "It is to help natives including alaskans and hawaiians as well as other minorities who can't get into law school take classes in the summer before their first semester to bring them up to speed. Do you support this?" I return, "I don't like being discriminated against (quietly thinking about alcoholism rates amongst lawyers and reveling in the humor of my stereotypes)." She understands but seems to find me a bit too willing to associate myself with the discriminated, which she, as a yankee black woman, knows all about I'm sure. I say then, "How many German Catholics are lawyers here?" No answer. "Well, that is what I am and no one seems to think that that is diversity." "I have nothing to do with people in Southern Indiana whatever their race and I don't like being lumped in with them." She is taken aback by how fast the gloves came off and moves on.

She ends it all by telling me that she will give me a middle rating which is essentially a C in a pass/fail course. I don't expect to hear from the bar, but the fact that some woman gets to check and make sure that I have sympathy for people who are lazy or unintelligent and come from cultures that don't take pride in hard work I found unbelievable. Social Control, I believe is the dominant theme of modern liberalism, from the French Revolution (like de Sade), through to the rise of Birth Control (Meg Sanger, Rockefellers, and Paul Blanshard), the Civil Rights movement (you know who), advertising (Bernays) on to pornography (Dershowitz et al (read his CV and how much he was involved with porn early on) as some sort of protected speech. This is our America. Make sure you are in lock-step with the liberal apparatus, otherwise, you might not be able to here.