On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. ============= And why would anyone want to be superior to you is the question of politics. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
