Do You Understand Now? – The Hugh Hewitt Show

Few questions have baffled my generation more than, “How did a devil like Hitler get power to begin with?”  We are the right age to have heard all about WWII from those that lived it, but also to have witnessed the great liberalization of the Civil Rights Movement.  In the end the Civil Rights Movement was about merit over race, but it sure has not ended up there.  Colorado elected another antisemite in yesterday’s primaries.  The Democratic slate is starting to be pretty crowded with with such people.  At the end of my life I am seeing a return of that which I thought had been rejected.  It is depressing and frightening.

I see three factors that have contributed mightily to this decline.

The first factor is just flat out ignorance.  One prof at an Ivy League school has very smartly uncovered just how widespread AI cheating is on our elite campuses.  He got hints of what was happening and so designed the final such that AI could not be used.  The students wised up as he did and more than half dropped out before the final.  Of those that showed up for the final the average score was 48 out of 100 which is beyond dismal.

It turns out that DEI related rules now prevent us from actually studying and learning history.  The whole craze of returning artifacts to the indigenous tribes is severely limiting actual study and the communication of the results of such research to the general public.   Which brings me to the second factor.

Equal Opportunity has become reverse racism.  It began innocently enough, generously trying to help those that did not have the advantages of others.  But somewhere along the line it turned into racial quotas, and cries for “justice” that amounted to robbery.  I think it reached an acme during the Obama administration, but it is not going away readily.  The point is that while the Civil Rights Movement was all about removing racial consideration, we now focus on and consider race more than ever.  As a result resentment has replaced oppression.  This has resulted in racial tensions being as high as they ever have been.  The more attention we pay to race, the worse racial tensions become and the more likely racism, for example antisemitism, is to assert itself.  Which brings me to the third factor.

Ignorance…Reverse Racism…Recursion.  This third factor may take a bit of explanation.  There is a theory that AI is slowly getting dumber.  AI learns by reading the internet.  As AI generates more and more content for the internet, AI is reading itself more and more.  This has two effects.  One, it dilutes actual original content.  New and novel information becomes harder and harder to encounter and when encountered it is assigned less significance because it is not prominent.  Secondly, since AI summarizes each time it utters, AI is now reading summaries of summaries of summaries.  Information becomes less nuanced, less detailed and more ignorant.

Younger generations live in a recursive world.  The internet permits them to be exposed only to that which they want to be exposed to, thus they ingest the same thing over and over and over again.  Like AI, becoming slightly dumber with each recursion.  Secondly, they rely heavily on AI, which is also becoming dumber and dumber.  Thirdly in a world driven by racial quotas, considerations of race are of themselves recursive – as we already saw.

In permitting massive immigration from the Islamic world we have imported a great deal of religiously held antisemitism.  We like to think we have only permitted the downtrodden in, but that is not the case.  We have imported many in the thinking classes as well and they are educating our youth.  These youth, raised in light of the three factors just discussed are a fertile soil into which that imported antisemitism can be planted and expected to thrive.

Nazi Germany arose under similar conditions of ignorance and resentment.  And so I have finally begun to understand the answer to a question that has plagued me my whole live.  I just hate the fact that I am living through its repetition.