DEI: A Marker on the Road to Dystopia Lessons of History

Everyone following the news has surely noted the recent string of transportation and communications systems breakdowns plaguing our society. These include communications blackouts, hacking of corporate databases, train wrecks across the country, plant explosions and planes falling out of the sky or colliding on the ground. Even navigating your way through an airport has become a nightmare. Nothing seems to work anymore. Everyone can sense something is wrong. When the government shut down the economy during COVID, a measure increasingly acknowledged as unnecessary, everyone assumed the economy could be turned back on like a light switch. It didn’t turn out that way.