History is largely a example of inequality,oppression, hypocrisy, and double standards.
So far personally I have come to the conclusion that examples of oppression statistically if we were to look at history mathmatically far outweigh in volume what many call compassion.
If I was to take a look at a society in observance where can I locate equality at specifically?
People speak of equality all the time in politics or in descriptions of whole societies so much that sometimes the meaning of the word is loss indefinately.
When I take a look at the affairs of the world I see alot of inequality yet nothing when it comes to the understanding of equality itself through observance.
Does equality even exist or is it just some phantom we have constructed as a security blanket in world that is inequal and unjust?
If we all believe that like god equality is also dead then there really is no real reason beyond pretend show to obey rules, principles, morals, and ethics.
If we admit this world is one of vicious malign competition where society is one giant free for all of survival without thought of mutual considerations of other people I believe there is no real reason why obedience should be followed.
A moralist would talk about consequences of actions or extreme intolerance of intolerance as a stop gap to my position as to why individuals should be moral but fail to understand that such conjectures are merely another extension of the same malign violence I’m talking about in a world governed by inequality which really reduces their own foundation in conversation to nothing at all beyond mere threatening blackmail as to why people should be moral.
Personal, individual acts of ‘compassion’ do not even make the eleven o’clock news, much less ‘history’ (on national and international levels). You mix apples and oranges. There is much compassion in my personal ‘history’. Why, do you think, it has never made it to your ‘data pool’?
Your data is skewed. The behavior of social cells is ordinarily of the ‘lowest common denominator’ of ‘ethics’ and ‘compassion’.
You are looking in the wrong place.
Equal in what sense? Economically? Appearance wise? Intellectually? Mnemonically? Physically? Get the idea?
It is a powerful word (tool) used in the manipulation of the ‘people’ (person). If you have any concept of the ‘equality’ of which you speak, that is the only place that you will find any.
Because there is none in society to observe. Hence, my earlier statement that you were looking in the wrong place.
It exists in your mind. (Everything exists)
Something ‘near’ to the ‘equality’ of which you speak can, however, be ‘found’ at a deep metaphysical ‘level’.
Peace
It does, but it is BS nontheless! At least at the ‘literal’ level of understanding. One is born poor and sickly, deformed… another is born pretty and rich… Equal? Hardly. Will they have equal lives, again, hardly…
Sam Colt sells false security…
Yes, it is. So what? Does that mean we should surrender to injustice?
Legal double standards–whether the double standards are legally enforced (slavery), or whether upper class infringements are legally ignored (elitism).
Equal rights is the only legally enforceable concept. All other inequalities are just facts of life.
It’s just a form man. Like it’s real because we say it is and try to enforce it. We use the math model of 1=1 as a sort of starting point. Or as a middle point, or maybe that’s where we finish. Who really knows man? I tried to email Plato but he hasn’t responded. If you want we can just say that it’s math, it would probably be easier that way.
Well, it’s not me who put it in the math closet. It’s you.
And you brought it out and dressed it with the form.
It’s your toy, baby. Do what you want.
Strip it, dress it, math closet, master-slave sado-maso closet, whatever you like.
Could you expand on your definition of ‘equality’ ?
If you mean ‘each person has an equal amount of power to do what they want’ of course that has never been true.
Even in the primitive days before ‘laws’ were enacted the difference in physical prowess meant there was no equality.
Things are still the same in hominid circles today.
As you may guess; equality is found next to justice, and justice is found next to democracy; and then you never find democracy without honor and intelligence since democracy is doomed without them, and they always get together without their wives a couple nights a week and play cards, drink beers, watch some games, and jamb on some old instraments Justice keeps in the garage. Equality likes the fiddle, and justice plays the guitar. Intelligence always gets bombed, and honor always drives him home. The end.
…equality, nay life itself, is a form of power play: those who succumb to it, suffer the consequences of it - it only exists in the minds of the weak: mind over matter, n’all…
