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Quote by: Athena Equal is not to be mistaken for the same. The Greeks gods were each distinctly different, and yet equal. The sun shines on all of us. Our laws apply to all of us. Yet we are all different.
The democracy of Athens lasted only 200 years. About as long as the US democracy has lasted. We honestly need to study history and learn from it. The US is making the same mistakes Athens made. |
Just to clarify, the gods were made up by the people and were not real. They were however equal only in that they were gods but each one had a different responsability and its possible that the people gave each god equal importance with reguards to the various responsabilities. I'll say it up front that I'm not as familiar with Greek mythos as you may be so I'm speaking with limited knowledge on this subject. I think the mistake humans make is to look at an individual based on many factors with certain levels of judgement.
For instance: male/ female, white collar/ blue collar, attractive/ unattractive, educated/ uneducated, fat/ skinny and so on. The very reason that we do this is to see ourselves in relation to others, to guage where we stand in society. If we don't like somebody for whatever reason it usually means we fear something. Fear that that person might do something to us, take something from us, become better than us, reject us, give/sell us something we don't want and probably thousands of other excuses. What your asking society to do is control their egos to the point that everybody sees each other as equals and has no judgement about anyone. If that were possible then at that point is when society stops evolving. There would be no need to help another person because they are less educated than you for instance because you don't see that person as less educated than yourself, no need for skinny people to gain weight or fat people to lose weigh for their health because they aren't seen as such. Is this making sense?
Our differences are what make the human machine keep going. I'm not saying we should stop trying to right the wrongs like hunger, genocide, hatred, the gap between the haves and have nots. The only way for society to survive is for each of us to get control over our fears of each other and start to love one another unconditionaly.