Should we aspire for “complete equality?”
Question from the Internet:
“Can society ever truly achieve complete equality, or is it an unattainable ideal?”
The question is if “complete equality” is something we should aspire for at all.
Obviously, we won't find the answer by looking at human society, either historically or looking at our own civilization. Human society, our ideologies, philosophies, religions, and systems have always been flawed and distorted by our inherently egocentric, subjective, and individualistic nature.
But we can look at nature’s system for answers. After all, nature is a system that creates and sustains life.
So do we see “complete equality” in nature? And if nature, in general, is something that is difficult to assess, we can look at our own biological bodies, as they represent closed, integrated, and living natural systems.
Do we see “complete equality” in our body between our cells and organs? Does the body suffer from not having “complete equality”?
What we get and see in nature is “relative equality”. This means, that there are myriads of vastly diverse and different parts and elements that comprise such integrated living systems. Each of these diverse and seemingly incompatible parts and elements fulfills specific roles that are unique and irreplaceable.
And each part and element receive exactly what they deserve and need for fulfilling their crucially important, mutually contributing roles, so they could continue to fulfill that role for the sake and well-being of the whole.
The greater or seemingly more important a part or element is — like the brain or heart in the body — the fresher blood it receives and the faster access to nutrition it has. On the other hand, the serving and contributing role of those “more important” organs are greater.
The point is, each integrated element performs 100% selfless and unconditional service towards the whole system. It is natural, that they receive, justly and proportionately, exactly what they need to perform their task, for the sake of the whole.
If human society was built like the human body, each individual human being behaving like a healthy cell, each performing their own, unique and irreplaceable task to their most optimal abilities, according to their conditions and given qualities, then each also received exactly what they need and deserve.
This “relative equality” would be sufficient and everybody would accept it since all would feel exactly how much each contributes. Moreover, we would also know, that this has nothing to do with our arbitrary, misguided, self-serving, and self-justifying ideologies, philosophies, or religions. We would live, naturally, according to the strict, unchanging, and unforgiving laws of nature, we would all know and feel viscerally.
This can be achieved by the proper, purposeful, and practical educational method, here and now.