streamofthought

On equality

As long as one acknowledges an arrow of progress/evolution/development, then a prevalence order is established, a hierarchy. Something is better than other thing. Someone is better than someone else.

But the late discourse on diversity and inclusion has been rooted in the idea of: “everyone is equal”. That idea is incompatible with the arrow above.

The wielding of good natured ideas like diversity and inclusion by shallow individuals does more harm than good.

While we are all constructed around a common scaffolding, people are born with different capabilities and tendencies. We all establish a different relationship with life’s resistance, and therefore develop in different ways.

Everyone grows; everyone is in a certain common line, but we’re all at different positions on that line. And some, even though it’s hard to say, are more advanced than others.

The point is what that we cannot agree on what that line is and therefore the relative position can be inverted just by interpreting the right direction of the arrow.