Give Me Inequality or Give Me Death

American Thinker ^ | April 19, 2010 | Nancy Coppock

[neverdem]

Okay, demanders of equality, you've won! We know you never bought into this "equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome" idea. Let's just cut to the chase and make the world and all those who inhabit it equal. Let's just wave a wand, and presto change-o! We now live in The United States of Equality. Let the income of Bill Gates be equal to that of the woman scrubbing the toilets at the Microsoft building. Let's just cut to the chase and get to the reality of the Utopia of Equality.

Bill Gates and the toilet-cleaner are now receiving the same paycheck. A bus driver now receives the same amount in his paycheck as the top player in the NBA. The guy selling newspapers on the corner of the busy intersection now earns the same amount as the electrical engineer designing next-generation computer hardware. The teacher is rewarded for her services in an equal amount to what the latest prosperity gospel huckster preacher gets. Hooray! Equality is here. But is it what we thought we wanted?

What happens to the inner soul, the spirit of man, in an age of equality? Does our human nature change so that we all become caught up in the groovy world of peace and love? Can the nature of man become transformed so that the greatest chef in the world is now pleased to be on par with the laziest burger-flipper who ever manned a fast food grill? Would the finest opera singer be okay with equal diva status with the worst warbler to ever hold a karaoke microphone?

The truth is that equality is a death knell to the inner spirit of man. Our spirit requires that we be rewarded according to what others are willing to give or pay for our services. It is a necessity to our nature as much as food, shelter, and clothing are to preserving our lives. Without a living spirit, we would be as animals, having no desires other than what the present requires. Equality snuffs out that living spirit that burns inside us. Yet the lure of equality is drawing us ever closer to the yawning black hole of nihilistic destruction.

Proverbs says: "The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD; searching all the innermost parts of his being." Our inner spirit is our Creator's lamp, the light that shines within us. It is the lamp of inspiration and revelation that guides each of us in fulfilling our individual pursuits and personal gifts. All art is invention from revelation. Even the ancients knew that the gods delivered discovery to men.

But in legislated equality, there is no place for a Creator; the Law of Man is now the prime mover, our sole provider and guide. To be inspired is to recommend the order of inequality rather than the legislated dictum of equality. Such thinking or ability must be crushed as sure as the Killing Fields of Cambodia were meant to rid that nation of the educated and entrepreneurial class.

So today, in the United States of Equality, doctors will now be selected by fiat rather than internal passion, experience, and skill. Engineers will be recruited by quota, not mathematical stamina, while our vehicles are legislated to fly by 2015, powered by perpetual motion. Teachers are revered for their tenure rather than their ability to impart knowledge and wisdom to another. Rather than the Renaissance, equality hastens the backwardness of the Dark Ages. But even in the Dark Ages, people clung to notions of hierarchy of ability for protection and progress.

This coming age of equality is an iron trap of control by those believing themselves to be like God, rather than understanding that we are merely made in His image, capable of creating for oneself and for others. Is a man who created his own job equal to the man whose created job spun into jobs for hundreds, and also equal to the man whose job produced an entire industry with job-creation rippling out into the hundreds of millions? Is creative ability due to equal opportunity or equality of outcome?

Will the human condition accept that a group of kids banging away at their instruments in their parents' garages are equal in worth to our human existence as a group of chemists with a list of patents that cure diseases? Yet our Utopians conspire to select who must be raised up and who must be cut down to size. Concocting an equal opportunity is as difficult a task as turning lead into gold, yet the Utopians gather their statistics and infer conclusions to produce a new reality. Although each of us is as unique and individual as snowflakes, Utopians view us as mere pigeons nesting in our holes, with them in the role of our fowlers. 

The truth is that in The United States of Equality, inspired individuals would choose to remain within the freedom of their own minds. Their soaring ideas could be safely enjoyed imaginatively, rather than in the outside world of crushing, leveling, spirit-numbing equality. Or else they may risk their lives and furtively create in secret, their inspired creations becoming true acts of terrorism against the state.

Equality is the path to spiritual immolation. Give me inequality, or give me death.

[neverdem]

IMHO, lets call these fools the utopians that they are.

[donaldo]

“I love liberty. I hate equality.” John Randolph of Roanoke.

[rawcatslyentist]

Jesus said "The poor will always be with you."

If we are all made equal, we will all be equally poor!

[Nateman]

To reach the Utopia of equality drive South until you reach the border with Mexico. It's a socialist democracy. Hopey changey from the Mexican revolution has not worked out very well.

[screaminsunshine]

Unfortunatly Chasing Utopia is an incurable mental illness.

[bruinbirdman]

" Our spirit requires that we be rewarded according to what others are willing to give or pay for our services. It is a necessity to our nature as much as food, shelter, and clothing are to preserving our lives."

Hillary Clinton, "Well, we'll just have to change human nature."

yitbos

[BipolarBob]

The post below about Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe is a shining example of how well this strategy of equality and reparations works.

[Brugmansian]

Nicolás Gómez Dávila on the subject:

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

Every non-hierarchical society is divided in two.

Egalitarian ideas distort our perception of the present and, in addition, mutilate our vision of the past.

[Venturer]

If you took every penny in the world and distributed it equally, within 6 weeks some people would be rich and others would be poor.

There are those who will not work, Those who will not help themselves or anyone else. Those who are a burden on society and will be a burden no matter what you do for them.

[ballplayer]

When did she make that statement

[ExGeeEye]

bookmark

[gogogodzilla]

PING, for later.

[DrC]

“within 6 weeks some people would be rich and others would be poor.”

Exactly. Liberty inevitability begets inequality, as free people will voluntarily exchange resources with those offering goods or services they value and will refuse to deal with those who do not. The odds that the resultant distribution of wealth would be perfectly equal are infinitesimal. Likewise, if we observe a world with perfect equality, the odds that its people are free also are infinitesimal.

An enduring feature of American exceptionalism is our preference for liberty over equality. In Europe and Canada, the reverse is true. Barack Obama is much better suited to lead a democratic socialist nation such as Denmark or UK than the U.S. At least then, his views would not collide with the views of the majority.

[driftless2]

The thing is very few of these fools actually believe in income equality. Just start mentioning to the Hollyweird clowns that they should share their loot with some of the penniless ignorati, and see how far that idea gets with them. About as far as Tom Hanks can throw Rosie O’Donnell. And I’m sure most of the Big Media elites like the Tom Friedmans and the E. J. Dionnes wouldn’t be very happy if some impartial person took their swag and redistributed it to the poor unfortunates.

[gogogodzilla]

We are now living in the world of “Harrison Bergeron”.

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Harrison Bergeron
by: Kurt Vonnegut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Bergeron

In the story, social equality has been achieved by handicapping the more intelligent, athletic or beautiful members of society. For example, strength is handicapped by the requirement to carry weight, beauty by the requirement to wear a mask and so on. This is due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th amendments to the United States Constitution. This process is central to the society, designed so that no one will feel inferior to anyone else. Handicapping is overseen by the United States Handicapper General, Diana Moon-Glampers.

Harrison Bergeron, the protagonist of the story, has exceptional intelligence, strength, and beauty, and thus has to bear enormous handicaps. These include headphones that play distracting noises, three hundred pounds of weight strapped to his body, eyeglasses designed to give him headaches, a rubber ball on his nose, black caps on his teeth, and shaven eyebrows. Despite these societal handicaps, he is able to invade a TV station, declare himself Emperor, strip himself of his handicaps, then dance with a ballerina whose handicaps he has also discarded. Both are shot dead by the brutal and relentless Handicapper General. The story is framed by an additional perspective from Bergeron’s parents, who are watching the incident on TV, but because of his father’s handicaps, and his mother’s average intelligence, they cannot concentrate enough to remember it.

[andy58-in-nh]

Hillary Clinton, "Well, we'll just have to change human nature."

Hitler's Nazis tried that, as did Stalin's Soviet Union and Mao's China and Pol Pot's Kampuchea. The result was heaps of human bodies stacked like cordwood and disposed of as though they were of no different essence. Never again. Not here, not now, not ever. No matter what.