DEI and the Death of Excellence: How Ideological Selection Degrades Culture Over Time

<![CDATA[Yesterday, an article titled "The Lost Generation" by Jacob Savage lit up social and news media well beyond Compact’s usual readership. Savage, a film writer, began with a narrow observation: that DEI-driven selection in Hollywood systematically filters out a large portion of capable scripts and creators before quality is even assessed. From there, he widened the lens. What looks like an industry problem, he argued, is really a generational one: an entire cohort of white millennial men has found itself locked out of the apprentice-to-master pathways that once allowed talent to mature into excellence. ]]>