Personal Equality

Continuing my journey to become an activist, my first action:

Adjusting the language.

Whenever approaching equality, you have to be sensitive and considerate. Yet it seems like whatever you say, some group is going to get hurt.

Maybe this is why you can only find Equality in the dictionary.

Searching for equality on the internet brings up results that make you wonder if equality belongs only to groups.

You will be offered information, discussions, suggestions to participate in countless activities with the word equality in them, all for the cause of supporting this group or another.

But try to find someone that supports you while you go to your boss and tell him that you put your job at the first place, and expect your job to do the same, and you'll be cast out, not just by him.

The fact that following equality deprives equality should not be accepted. But desiring equality is humanly equal to the desire for inequality, and until we change that, equality will remain the glass-ceiling that it has been, ever since invented as a glass-ceiling.

True, our world would look different if we wouldn’t be concerned with equality and wouldn’t act to achieve it, and any progress that has been made is a bless.

But while we protest against social inequalities, we tolerate personal inequalities, which include every person, regardless of the groups they do or do not belong to.

Following Robert Reich and his movie, Inequality for all, which I recommend to the extent of absurdity, I tried to answer the questions he raises, one of them being:

“Is (social) inequality a problem?”

Well, there is no beating around the bush here. Of course, social inequality is a problem, and facts about income inequality do drive to action.

But I find the fact that we define some inequalities as inevitable while fighting to eradicate others, the essence of our problem.

Inequality far all, like many steps towards equality, is a mind-opener, and one of the reasons you read these words, but it too neglects the essential part of every group or society – human beings.

The earnings of the typical workers at the top is something that has no immediate impact over most of our lives, and many of us are not in the position to plan our personal life ahead.

Allocating efforts to impersonal issues may be a privilege not everyone can afford, important and beneficial to the future as may be.

Society doesn’t accept people that don’t comply to conformities under the justification that they made bad choices in their lives. In addition, it accuses people who lack motivation, aren’t successful, or not aspiring to be, in being indulged and/or lazy. In other words – a nuisance.

People are supposed to be productive and work hard as a payback for proper incentives, but people are working hard to their deaths, with no incentives other than stepping out of hidden poverty, and still feel they need to compensate Work for not working hard enough.

Never the other way around.

INEQUALITY.

I believe that changing that is the next step in achieving values that are equality-driven like

acceptance, belongingness, and equanimity.

I also believe that at the end of the day, this is what most of us want/need.

I think it qualifies for a group.

I want to make a world where you don’t have to think twice before submitting your expectations, and you can be drawn to your organic interests and not be blamed for not aspiring impersonal morals.

A world where you are not obligated to regretting being yourself, and not being rejected for not doing it.

I want a world where what you give matters, and you are not judged by the amount of money you or anybody else bring to a system.

This isn’t a fantasy. It’s just stepping out of the classroom and into the lab.

We have utilized our evolution before we knew it existed. We have cultured every aspect of the universe, including space and beyond. We implicated feelings that our whole society is built on.

We know how to do Things.

People have changed societies, and people, for centuries, and will continue doing so forever.

Why won’t the next change be Personal Equality?

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Starting with searching for speakers of this language, I head to publish this suggestion.

Next: Contacting Robert Reich and ask to consider including personal equality in the agenda for reducing income-inequality. Combining income and personal equality may answer the pending question What about Us? In terms of hope, and may pave the way for becoming a group, of People.

Peace,

Maayan