Have been hearing a lot about equal opportunities for all, equal rights, opportunities and such things be it for women, backward classes or someone else. Equal opportunities is maybe digestable but should everything in the world be equal? What would the world be if everything including "good" genes were rationed? Would the world then be equal?
I don't know that but feel it would surely be much more boring to live in. Imagine everyone is equal...... no fantasies, no heroes nothing. Surely the romance would be all gone. Maybe with inequality I can be at a disadvantage but I can atleast dream about the "greener" grass on the other side of the fence. Equality will take that even my dreams away. Nothing would be "greener" only green, nothing great but everything ok, something like the dreams of a blind person, deprived of colour. Nothing to prove, just getting up each day doing some work and going back to sleep all very uniformly like everyone else. And above all what about my identity? Is it not the inequalities in this world that make us unique, that give us something which can be called truly ours?
Even the poorest of the poor would rather live in his poverty than in a robotic equal world. After all what does he want, bread? Bread he wants so that he can live, in the hope that some day he would be on the other side of the fence, that some day he would enjoy INEQUALITY.
God did roll the dice afterall while creating us. And I am mighty happy that He did.
I don't know that but feel it would surely be much more boring to live in. Imagine everyone is equal...... no fantasies, no heroes nothing. Surely the romance would be all gone. Maybe with inequality I can be at a disadvantage but I can atleast dream about the "greener" grass on the other side of the fence. Equality will take that even my dreams away. Nothing would be "greener" only green, nothing great but everything ok, something like the dreams of a blind person, deprived of colour. Nothing to prove, just getting up each day doing some work and going back to sleep all very uniformly like everyone else. And above all what about my identity? Is it not the inequalities in this world that make us unique, that give us something which can be called truly ours?
Even the poorest of the poor would rather live in his poverty than in a robotic equal world. After all what does he want, bread? Bread he wants so that he can live, in the hope that some day he would be on the other side of the fence, that some day he would enjoy INEQUALITY.
God did roll the dice afterall while creating us. And I am mighty happy that He did.
posted by Sameer Gupta | 12:46 am
4 Comments:
Nice point.
However I feel that the 'inequality' you are talking about is in fact diversity. Equality means everyone having equal opportunity to do what they want. Equality means a common can one day fream to be an emperor, not just the emperor's son.
good one.
and i agree with manas's view.
yes it does seem that what I talked about was more of diversity than inequality.
but tell me this-
speaking different languages or having different ways to celebrate a wedding can be called diversity,
but is being born as a girl child in haryana where they would rather have you killed before your birth and being born to priyanka gandhi where you are already a prime ministerial candidate before your birth only diverse? They are unequal, and it is this very inequality that I am admiring.
Leaving aside just Diversity,
"Equality" does not mean an ever equal world. "Equality" means equal opportunities for all, to begin with.
You can become a Dhirubhai Ambani, or Bill Gates at the end of your lives, but you can not start from being the Ambani brothers.
You enjoy inequality, fine enough, but want others to also enjoy that? Whenever in"equality" comes, there are many more at the receiving end than those enjoying it. Howsoever i may be on the beneficial side of in"equality", I will never enjoy it in the Darwinian sense of "Struggle for the fittest", i am after all human, and proud to be so.
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