Saturday, November 11, 2017
Inequality, unfairness, elitism, and "real life"
Here’s a couple pieces for thought, maybe for more
expansion later.
One is by Brian Lufkin on BBC News. “There’s a problem with the way we define inequality”.
That is to say, that most of us accept the
inevitability of some kind of inequality if there is going to be ego that can
drive progress, but in time abuse of unearned “privilege” and particularly “unfairness”
will cause life to lose a lot of meaning to some people, and tend to drive the
less competitive young adults toward autocratic belief systems (religious or
not) and causes they can belong to – or else to nihilism itself. Preoccupation with "unfairness" has its own downside implication, that people are to be ranked on some kind of scale. Authoritarians love that.
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