We live in a society that is increasingly devoid of excellence, a period of history where high standards (or sometimes any standards at all) seem to have gone AWOL.
This is partly because excellence is hard, partly because people who cannot do it are jealous of those who can, but also because excellence is discouraged, made to sound off-putting by those who seek to wield power over us. The lowering of standards – be they of education, morality, discipline, speech, culture or appearance – is, according to some, merely one link in the ongoing demoralisation strategy well explained by Yuri Bezmenov
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