In Defense of a Beautiful Boss
21st March 2015
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that someone out there writing for The Economist has a problem with the looks of our bosses. Leftists have been waging a war against nearly every personal advantage for years: if they aren’t upset because your parents are rich, they’ll insult you because your parents are white, or maybe because you have a penis. In their most unreasonable moments, they might even be upset that you deserve your own job. It seems only reasonable to expect that sooner or later, they would be complaining about whether or not our bosses keep themselves in shape.
This is because at the heart of all leftism lies an unreasonable envy of all advantage (disguised as an advocacy of the disadvantaged) and an unhealthy hatred of actual diversity (disguised as an appreciation of difference). They call life a meritocracy when your successful parents raise you to win, which is a lot like complaining that your parents raised you at all. It’s almost enough to make you wonder whether they loathe the laws of cause and effect. In the fight against all odds – not his, but everyone’s – the leftist hasn’t only forgotten that different people breed different people; he’s forgotten that different people are diversity itself, and that diversity, the thing he claims to be championing, means that someone is going to have natural advantages.