day no. 16,046: tyrants lop the tops

"A tyrant lops off those ears which grow higher than the rest of the corn, especially where virtue makes them most conspicuously eminent." -- Junius Brutus, Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos

Tyrants like things level.They call it as "equality," but it amounts to leveling. It isn't aimed at raising everyone to the highest goals, but lowering everyone to the lowest denominator. Tyrants hate exceptional men. Tyrants thrive in a kingdom of sycophants and thus create the kind of pecking order they can manage. Since they are utterly outmatched in every capacity other than their willingness to indulge themselves, they can only accomplish this by eliminating those who excel or, where possible, the ambition of excellence altogether.

This observation in Vindiciae immediately called to mind a similar sentiment expressed by C. S. Lewis in Screwtape...

“What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence—moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how Democracy (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods? You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them ‘tyrants’ then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of corn, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no pre-eminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser, or better, or more famous, or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level; all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practise, in a sense, ‘democracy’. But now ‘democracy’ can do the same work without any other tyranny than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.” ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters: Screwtape Proposes a Toast

In order to equalize God’s creative diversity you must neutralize His diverse creativity. So, while it may appear to be "working" at times, it cannot ultimately work. More to the point, that's biting off a bit more than they can chew.