[FRIAM] "All [persons] are created equal"

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Hi, Glen, 

 

You wrote:

 

I read *through* the word to a constellation of ideals behind it, including dyed in the wool socialism, if not anarchism.

 

I cannot see how my “creation myth” as you aptly term it, leads to government control of the means of production, let alone anarchism.  I am no anarchist, so if you can show me how this works, its bad news for the myth.  

 

Nick 

Nick Thompson

ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

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Yeah, talk of equality is sophistry, in the bad sense of the word. But, NOT being a postmodernist, myself, I read *through* the word to a constellation of ideals behind it, including dyed in the wool socialism, if not anarchism. But unlike Nick's creation myth, I tend to think of it in terms of Respect for Persons ... or simply Respect:  <https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/respect/> https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/respect/

 

In fact, one place the righties have it right is that to equalize everything in a single dimension (e.g. redistribution of money) is ultimately disrespectful and, hence, a violation of the principle of equality (if understood as respect). Where they go wrong is in rejecting the idea of equalizing according to a large fabric of variables, which is what motivates equalization by money ... because ... wait for it ... money is a good, reductive, singular candidate for hyper-reduction ... well, fiat money anyway. So, only because we live in a largely capitalist society, does equalization via money make sense ... because money is a medium, not a thing, in itself.

 

Obviously, I have my doubts about money as a fluid medium. But we've argued that to death already.

 

 

On 8/26/21 1:22 PM, Steve Smith wrote:

> Marcus wrote:

>> 

>> You are made of matter following some trajectory that was initiated with the big bang, and you will go where you will go.  There is no “deserve”.

>> 

> 

>             "The universe is flux, all else is opinion" - M. Aurelius

> 

> and... 

>            "they're merely talking to hear themselves speak" - G. Ropella

 

 

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