Equality

"We in America -- and men across the earth -- have trapped ourselves with the word equality, which is inapplicable to the genus man. I wish we would forget it. Stop its use in our country -- let the communists have it. It isn't fit for men who fling their dreams across the skies. It is fit only for a leveling down of mankind."

From Killers of the Dream by Lillian Smith

Now I'm not against equality, mind you, but it's the artificial imposing of it on society that is the issue. Her last sentence -- and thousands of years of human experience -- show us that if it does anything, it brings everyone down to the lowest level. There is no such thing as "leveling up".

This is true everywhere:

You cannot become hungry enough to feed one starving person;
You cannot become poor enough to make another person wealthy;
You cannot become stupid enough to make another person smart;
You cannot be weak enough to make one weak person strong;
Etc, etc.

And yet, as obvious as these examples may sound, this is EXACTLY what our notion of "equality" amounts to -- making everyone equally WEAK.


Equality -- like freedom -- is a condition of birth into this world. Neither is dispensed according to fellow men, and therefore neither can be directed or granted to guarantee anybody anything. In fact, the only thing men can do to affect either is to RESTRICT them.