Stetson

“Undifferentiated and only cosmetically varied, the literary world had become one swarming mass, like a rat king. Their cosmetic differences hid a frightened, stifled sameness, which sought only more of itself, and which cast out any true difference, often in the name of difference, while pretending, even to itself, that it didn’t know what it was doing. Any time a group wasn’t sufficiently differentiated, I knew, it aggressively descended into delusion; in which case only those who firmly stood outside could see the truth. The crowd is untruth…”
― Jordan Castro, The Novelist

“The survival of an ethnic caste-ideal does not alter the general picture of collapsing ethnic boundaries. The immigration of new ethnic diasporas might mitigate ethnic decline somewhat, but—given ecological constraints—
only for a limited period. Over the longue duree, this thesis would suggest that racial boundaries, as with ethnic boundaries, will continue to weaken, thereby generating a symbolically fluid, highly privatized, post-ethnic social environment. The only foreseeable force that could reverse the decline of dominant ethnicity in the United States is an intellectual crisis in which the cosmopolitan paradigm is jettisoned. This
would entail the American cultural elite losing faith in liberty and equality
as the ultimate standards of social progress. In effect, these Enlightenment ideals would need to be superseded as the definition of the Good in America. Such an about-turn would represent a civilizational cataclysm,
rupturing a progressive narrative that is hundreds of years old, a truly post-“modern” development that is nowhere in sight.”
― Eric P. Kaufmann, The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America

“What I am doing is arguing, through an appeal to data and rigorous studies, that two
parents tend to be able to provide their children with more resource advantages than
one parent alone. And furthermore, that a two-parent family is increasingly becoming
yet another privilege associated with more highly resourced groups in society.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

“But at some point – a point I think we are well past, given the body of research – the
weight of the evidence is so strong that the most reasonable conclusion is that even
if there were some unobservable differences between single and married parents,
the thing staring at us from the data is overwhelming: having a second parent in the
home, with the added resources (money, time, etc.) that second parent brings, is, on
average, beneficial for children’s outcomes.”
― Melissa S. Kearney, The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind