Self-inflicted lobotomy
Perhaps you might find one
In the bottom of a tattered cardboard box
Half filled with your mother’s school books
She thought she might need someday
Ubiquitous spores tickle as you dig to the bottom
and find a thick book
Something as thick as a “phone book”
Whatever that might be
It’s filled with words from A to Z
and what they meant
Now they must mean something different
Because unless you twist meanings
You can’t have both Freedom and Equality
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Bam. Powerful. Thanks for sharing.
Steve, I think you may be stuck on just one of the meanings of equal(ity): everybody has the same amount of stuff. My Webster’s NCD gives these concepts (among others): equivalent, impartial, free from extremes, suitable. For example, do you think billionaires who cheat on their taxes to the tune of 100s of millions of $ should get the same punishment as the meth-head who shop lifts a TV from Walmart? I don’t think freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, in fact I think you have to have one to have the other. But that’s just my opinion and I’m glad to have the freedom to express it.
Jim, as usual, I’m kicking the dead horse – one derailed train of quasi-thought – to have equality you need overlord enforcement – you can’t be free if there’s an overlord enforcing something
If meth was legal and we raked the revenue rather than the income, Jeff Bezos would be a free man today
compare-consume-constipate or reflect-release-realize
many of overlords have taking my boot to their balls. we need more boots!