Equality Can’t Be Achieved
Imagine a professor is giving a test to a class. When the test is over, he adds up all the scores and uses the average as a grade. By definition, this is equality. Everyone gets the same result. The only people who would profit from such a system are the students who perform worse than the class average. The result of such a policy would be that the high achievers in the class would stop putting as much effort into their work as they used to, because there is no incentive to do so, which would further drop the average test score.
That is equality. Equality is a cemetery of people and civilizations who thought they could outsmart their ancestors and failed.
I believe the experiment of equality is exclusive to the West. In terms of historical context, our modern perception of equality has yet to survive the test of time. History has taught us that nearsighted experts look through the wrong end of the lens and progressives are arrogant enough that they are willing to trade in our modus operandi on the off chance of being right this time. They’ll have you believe that history is an ever growing and inevitable progression toward liberty, equality and egalitarianism, but history is not a long tranquil river. It’s a series of falls, rapids and mouths.
Equality of opportunity, from a legal standpoint, already exists in this country. The 19th amendment gave women the right to vote and the Equal Pay Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act prohibits discrimination. This creates the question that perhaps equality is not the end goal of the screeching political minority.
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” the philosopher Karl Marx said. Doesn’t that very statement argue that each individual has different abilities and needs? If so, does that not make the very notion of equality absurd?
If we assume, for the sake of the argument, that equality is achievable—how would you go ahead to establish it? Certainly, it would require some people to be more equal than others.
Abstract and external beliefs that gain a foothold in our societies such as the false notion of “equality” will always go extinct. These self-indulgent, self-flagellating and self-congratulating ideologies are the ones that we come up with when we’re sitting on a mountain of success and we have the luxury to let our minds drift off from our work. When the riches become rags, all notions of equality come crashing down and then the cycle starts anew.
