Here, I argue that equality is a pure abstraction which does not actually exist in the phenomenal world, including in the most fundamental sense of the moral or spiritual equality of man derived from the concept of the ‘Imago Dei’ or ‘the image of God’, which is the ultimate theological origin from which all subsequent notions of equality have been derived, and which I attempt to demonstrate is itself conceptually incoherent given that some humans fail to display the properties associated with the Imago Dei, while some animals do. I further argue that the popular belief in ‘equality under the law’ is also dangerously mistaken if it is taken to mean a ‘one size fits all’ law, as – given the influence of the idea of equality – this then leads to law that fails to account for the biological variety of human types, thereby contributing to societal decay. Finally, I argue that, for individuals, society, and the human species to follow an upwards developmental trajectory, an embrace of inequality is absolutely necessary.
Before I begin, I don’t know why WordPress turned my photo from yellow to a blue circle with the letter G? Anyway…here are my thoughts.
I read the essay while I walked Ernie, my beagle. While Ernie smelled the grass, took a poop and pee, I valiantly struggled to read the essay. The more I read, the less inclined I felt to continue reading what the author was trying to say. When I got the the part where he lamented how long it took him to write what he had to say, I felt kind of sorry for him. To me, he is lost in his head -- round and around it goes and where it stops nobody knows.
I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of heaven and earth. I believe that God created wisdom and not man. At any moment, we can lose our intellect. I do not believe in the theory of evolution. I do believe in the natural God given rights our Founding Fathers wrote about. I believe we are not all created equal in all things. Kind of simple but not so simple.
I feel the author needs to smell the grass, and enjoy the beauty of the sky. He is lost in his head. On and on he babbled how arduous his article was to write. Most people would not read it. Not because they are dumber but because it’s dry as sand in a desert.
The author stated, at one point, in his diatribe,“We’re about one third of the way through this absolute doorstop of an essay, and as is my occasional wont I am interrupting your experience with what I am sure is an unwelcome reminder that these textual tokens were not belched out by my own ChudGPT, hand-trained to excel in the production of commodified racism, but was in fact written by an actual human being who has spent a very great deal of time composing a treatise that, perhaps ambitiously, perhaps delusionally, perhaps arrogantly, perhaps even tendentiously, but at least I hope entertainingly, proposes to assault the basis for one of the core precepts of liberal moral philosophy. That’s several hours a day, every day, for several days on end that has gone into this. Without taking weekends off, either: Saturday and Sunday are just other days of the week for me, at least when I’m buried in a project (I will freely admit that when I’m not, Tuesday is just another day of the weekend). Do you have any idea how long it takes to edit a document this long? To revise it, rewrite it, add to it, rearrange it, over many interations as I polish the text to the point where I’m prepared to share it with the world? Just reading it takes a couple of hours.
There are a lot of writers who would put everything that follows behind a paywall. That’s where the real meat is … the preceding is really just a sort of introduction. In any case, you know I’m not going to do that, because I am vain and addicted to attention, and so want people to read what I write, and paywalls are death to attention, but also (I flatter myself) because it is important to me that the ideas contained in this linguistic signal propagate through the noosphere. So, you can take shameless advantage of my vanity and my attention addiction, and keep reading for free. I won’t stop you. You gain nothing at all from becoming one of the elite patricians who support this blog. Aside from my gratitude, of course. And that knowledge that, by becoming a patron, you join the ranks of the elect.”
On and on….