{"id":2181,"date":"2018-09-25T14:50:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/?p=2181"},"modified":"2018-10-01T15:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T15:11:16","slug":"equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aurelis.org\/blog\/sociocultural-issues\/equality","title":{"rendered":"Equality?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody knows we live in a world of huge inequality. Indeed. But inequality in what? Where lies importance? Thus, in what should we strive for more equality?<\/h3>\n

In money?<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thus: in the currency that can be traded for any other \u2018goods\u2019: a car, a house, even a wife in (many men\u2019s) imagination?<\/p>\n

A strict focus on money would make an urge for \u2018equality\u2019 also a surge for objectified materialism. Even \u2018the other wife\u2019 becomes objectified, materialism-ated.<\/p>\n

Is that OK to you?<\/p>\n

Not to me. At one time, it struck me deeply when working as a doctor for less money-privileged patients. Then at times of election, huge numbers just voted for own money and against other people, principles, anything\u2026 Money makes the world go around till everything stops, doesn\u2019t it.<\/p>\n

So, striving for monetized equality?<\/p>\n

Sure, with realistic moderation.<\/p>\n

An already more to-the-point general currency: status.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In a world where money = status, the difference is not obvious. One \u2018does it\u2019 without thinking: the person with money can \u2018boss around\u2019 the person without. If this \u2018bossing around\u2019 is not done, it\u2019s felt as a gift.<\/p>\n

Which then again is OK! It\u2019s nice to give and it\u2019s nice to receive. A real gift is given wholeheartedly. It\u2019s a person giving a piece of himself to another person.<\/p>\n

A real gift is not a deal, in any way.<\/p>\n

Equal-worthiness<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my view, equality should be about status indeed. Not the one that is money or -related status, but the one that is related to \u2018human (end) value\u2019. [see: \u2018Being of Value<\/a>\u2019]<\/p>\n

We all deserve that status, although this is obviously not easy to achieve in vivo\u2026 Best is to start giving it to yourself. Paradoxically, this is of course the only way to achieve real<\/em> status and yet it\u2019s also the \u2018most difficult way\u2019 unless one is in the game of self-deception.<\/p>\n

Different people, different statuses<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again, so obvious.<\/p>\n

And yet people massively turn the other way.<\/p>\n

Deep down, we \u2013 probably naturally \u2013 manage status as for instance the thing needed for erotic success. It\u2019s as if we (humans) just cannot help it. We need status to have a workable environment that looks more or less like the present.<\/p>\n

Then, we could change environment.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the future, we will, as we have done in the past.<\/p>\n

Should we then strive for an environment prone to utmost equality?<\/p>\n

Which equality?<\/p>\n

Equal-worthiness would probably be most correct, but very fuzzy.<\/p>\n

Or: we might \u2018forget\u2019 equality altogether. See where that leads to\u2026 In my view, we should then all the more strive for worthiness and happiness, such things, in which then again money and status may play their roles, not in an urge for equality but for end-result\u2026<\/p>\n

Eventually, people should be able to make their own self-worthiness<\/p>\n

but they (we) definitely need a lot of support in this.<\/p>\n

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