One of the beauties of life is the simple fact that no matter how stupid things get, reality always

wins. And in fact, whether we're talking about your personal life or whether we're talking

about politics writ broadly, the simple fact of the matter is, eventually you are going to

run up against reality and reality is going to win. So when it comes to bad political ideas,

that doesn't mean they can't emerge

victorious in the short or even the midterm. It does mean that the realities of human nature,

the realities of the world surrounding you, those don't just go away. And eventually those policies

will fail dramatically. The dumber the policies, the faster they tend to fail. It doesn't mean

people acknowledge the failure, but it does mean that they fail pretty quickly. One of those dumb ideas that has obviously taken center stage of late

has been the dumb idea of woke. Woke is a foolish idea. Now, what exactly is Wokeness? We've defined it

before on the show. Wokeness is the basic idea that if there is any sort of disparity between group

outcome in American life,

that somehow that group disparity is due to discrimination. And the only corrective is therefore

reverse discrimination, some form of discrimination that is going to equalize the outcomes of the

various groups. And we have seen a wide variety of policies that have been implemented in order

to close all of these gaps.

The quest for cosmic justice, as Thomas Sowell, the great thinker of our time, has put it,

is a foolish quest.

It is not something that can be solved because the reality is the vast majority of group gaps

are either inborn or they are the result of culture and environment.

Because those are all the factors that there are. That does not mean that every result is the result of culture and environment. Because those are all the factors that there are.

That does not mean that every result is the result of inborn differences.

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