On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 7:41 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: The current emphasis in left rhetoric on inequality represents (in > practice) a focus on policy as opposed to politics. >
I'd go further than that and call it a substitution of metaphysics for politics, stemming from an unhealthy fetish for the Enlightenment, and found equally throughout the political ecosystem. If Jefferson hadn't written that "[a]ll men are created equal," I really don't think we'd hear so much about "equality" as an ideal today, across the board, not only (or even predominantly) from leftists. And the older I get, the less sense it seems to make. Pardon my French, but why the fuck would anyone want to be equal to *me*? And what would that even mean? Equality of political rights, or of income, I can wrap my head around. But equality as a human characteristic? It seems like a mystery of faith right up there with the Incarnation and the Trinity. -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."
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