Equality exists.

We each are given a lifetime

and a purpose

that we and only we can accomplish

in this universe of humanity

because of

our uniqueness

It is not a contest

or a race

everyone has the unfair advantage individuality.

It is just you

and the hundred million billion humans

before after and besides you

fairly equality

simply

choosing

to complete their mission

in the time allowed them

or not.

‘I am thinking of the close relation between the supreme emphasis on economic considerations and the religion of equality. The significance is the suppression of the organic and the accompanying mechanisation of life. The human individual is regarded as what he is for statistics – a standard human unit…we have now formally decreed the equality of women and men for what are accepted as the most important, the distinctively human, purposes.’

The lovely issuer of this challenge has ventured the contest a democracy, on the virtues and consequences of equality. In the spirit of that Athenian song, should we immediately remark what qualities obtain its basis. Accepted today almost as a predestination, the elements of democracy are not as freely convincing when spelled out in plain. The first is that common man has the right to govern himself and his fellow men. The second, that he is qualified to do so in the first place. Neither of which are so obvious on the face besides for their forceful consummation by the current rainbow-haired polity.

Is there anyone for which you could honestly appoint and wish to govern you? And if then you are confounded by the succession, why should it be any less doubtful in the collective? Idiocy is a commutative property; a great many fools is no better than a single one, nor a stupid opinion more fortunate than a multitude of the same. Indeed, in the cases where the individual mind can be tempered through solicitation of reason and reward, the mob is quelled alone by violence.

Democracy does not appeal to the rigour definite in exceptional thinking, to the often-incomprehensible intelligence and wisdom of genius, about which the common mind could hardly hope to ever close itself to. The attraction is not in the merit from man’s highest rationality, but to that which is most universal in us, the manifest desire to be our own master, to know above everyone else what is best for them.

As such, democracy stands precarious, ever needing for its warbling balance a religion of equality to precedence its sway.

And how Equality is such an unnatural religion to us, organisms of a primitive age, spiteful and coarsely made, still wickedly young in our journey unto becoming human. Even our most pious doctrines, the ones of charity and self-renunciation, take hold in their members primarily by a delicious promise to the punishment of their enemies.

There is nothing so repulsive to the proud spirit than a recognition as equal of those it esteems lesser. So too does it disturb the remainder of the slavish constitutions given to worship and groveling. It makes a terrible boredom out of the splendid inequality that is life and all its tragic incident.

Perhaps the worst offense, however, is Equality’s back-straight, at-attention, soldiering hypocrisy. It bears conspicuous contradictions with the most even of stares, unashamed and unabashed of its total unawareness. For whom among its number may convincingly be inhuman enough to live without their favorite little prejudices? It is a silly impossibility for one to not inherently accord himself more worth than the next man, to not hold abreast private discriminations of the most unsavoury kind.

Any idea of conviction is an inequality; any wanting or loving in that extent which excludes is to the same. Inequality is the ego itself, the disposition that tends towards one’s own self-regard. It is the agreement and the strife, the inequity and the justice, the wish to live full and free; but more, it is the very essence of the individual come to recognize himself as both most and least important.

What is the difference

in this impartial

existence?

THE Great Equalizer--

whose blade's

wiped

by the next

slice of Life,

so distinct

as to be trivial

in distinction--

is not burdened

as judge nor verdict!

Like a fork.

Ahh but the

Great Connoisseur

has distinguished

and in tasting

every flavor of

mortality

brings

all Materia

to a classified

extinction.

06.27.2022

Equality vs. Different Challenge @Uschibear

Each human being is unique and different, but they all have equal dignity, because that is not dependent on size, intelligence, maturity, age, social status, or anything else, but on the fact that Man is the crown of creation, the only creature of God made in His image and likeness. We have rational souls, unlike the other creatures of Earth, and bear the image of God in ourselves. This is our dignity, and equally common to us all, thus we have equal dignity.

However, "equality" is not taken to mean this today; more often, it means "fairness," which is also a term that has become convoluted. If from the beginning we were distinctly different, male and female, for example, perhaps there was a reason for that! We have equal dignity, and different roles that pertain to our natures. We can each be suited for different tasks and also look physically different, without ruining the equality we possess in our human dignity.

can equality exist? its an interesting question. this has come up a few times before here on the website.

we seem to be interested in this question...

humans are not as complicated as we like think.

we're born with constraints and needs, and soon learn to adapt to this world. we fibd our way to do things and this way, this system of oparation, once its set, and all the provisions and rules that dictate how we go about existing are solidified. it guides us through life. whenever new challenges pop up, whenever new experiences appear, we go to this users nanual , which is mostly subconcious, and get a 'fix'. the only change a person goes through is in detail and not in form. alteration of this code is mostly impossible though we may find ways to use internal conflicts between different imperatives to find a way to step beyond ourselves. but any change must be contained within this system.

now what does that have to do with the uestion at hand?

well...its the fact that people vary greatly in both needs, and the constraints of this existebtial system, are a result humans can not be reconciled with each other. we just can't. sooner or later, all that could happen to set people apart will happen. mere locality, language, physical condition gender, age etc. will throw an ever increasing wedge between people.

every culture tries to deal with this sad fact to a certain extent but all fail at some point.

definitions of equality are also varied. some put a legal pretence, that all shoukd be equal under the rule of law (which is an impossibility), some try to reach a material equality (which will alnost certainly require all to conform to some very strict behavior and fail..). there is the concept of equality in respobsibility, in morality, in physicality and mortality. but they , like all other ideas of man are limited, biased, and ultimatly erroneous.

we can say that we are all equal in our eventual fate. we can say that we are equal in our basic needs but not ALL our needs, we are all equal at being occasionally right, we are all equal at being wrong at times.

and so history, as i see it, is not a straight line, of advancement. it is not a stage were the struggles of man came to be resolved.

nothing gets resolved. but nothing ends either.

perhaps our equality is already acheived. we all became living, and we all came to know some things in this life. that is all we seem to be able to provide for everyone.

True equality is surrounded by the idea of the outcome of ones opportunities and choices.

That's the only way you can ensure different people are happy with their life. Different people will want different things in life. Different goals make them happy.

What makes me happy doesn't even make my closest sister happy, and we're related and we were raised the same! We were treated the same and understand the same references and the same parents, but in the end, our life choices are vastly different.

So, looking at sisters from the same household, how can you expect two people from different households to bow to FORCED equality?

Because that's what (unnamed) people are talking about, yes? Disguising it by calling it "equity" instead.

By forcing fundamentally different people to be equal, you end up with situations like "A Wrinkle In Time". Of course its a blown up imagined version of the fear, but think about it for a moment.

This force is taking over planets in time and space and foceing everyone and everything to be "the same". If you don't agree with "It" then you must be "corrected". Doesn't that sound chillingly familiar and remind you of Mary Poppins for so odd reason?

Not to mention that "It" was called "It". Non-binary and inclusive to ALL so as not to offend anyone.

Can we all agree that as a fantasy book it is still far fetched, but there are some concerning parallels as an anecdote?

Your freedoms only extend until they infringe upon the rights of others. You have choices and opportunities. No one is keeping you where you are at except you.

Make those hard choices.

Make the better of two ill choices...or that third one that no one talks about...

Its your life.

YOU live it.

Its not my job.

There is no equality, only the view from common ground.

If we all viewed the world on a flat surface, I think we get a pretty clear picture of equality.

If everyone gathered on an open field to look at the sky, we would all be able to see it. We would see the giants, the big, the small, the average, the fat, the skinny, and even the blind.

To ask the giants to move to the back would deprive them of the spot they got for being early, and to ask them to kneel would deprive them of the miraculous view they could potentially have.

For the blind to ask you to describe it would distract you from enjoying the moment.

If you ask those who brought ladders to come down from them, it would be punishing them for being prepared for the giants and aware that they're small.

You can try to stop people from barging to the front, but you would likely realize in your attempt to stop them, you're barging forward with them.

There would even be those so concerned about fairness and everything that's wrong that they never figured out how to enjoy the view from where they are.

There are advantages that we've earned and disadvantages we don't deserve. There is no equality; there is only how people treat one another.

Because somewhere in the crowd, there is a man with no legs sitting on a giant's shoulders.