"Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose.
I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway,
you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion." A quote by Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Writer, Poet, Philosopher, and Politician at an Independence Day celebration in 1991.
The words hold true today here in the United States.
Prosperity or egalitarianism? Prosperity or, the word that you did not read is “or” egalitarianism. Should all be equal? Another question. Egalitarianism as explained in the New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language © 1978 by Houghton Mifflin Co., is as follows. First, “Advocating the doctrine of equal political, economic, and legal rights for all citizens.” Second, “Pertaining to or arising from this doctrine. One who holds or advances egalitarian opinions.” The Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2004 Microsoft Corporation quote, “Believing in equality: maintaining, relating to, or based on a belief that all people are, in principle, equal and should enjoy equal social, political, and economic rights and opportunities.”
So what do we have here? Everyone is equal and should have the same amount of money, food, freedom of speech? What? Llosa says that he would rather have “freedom.” I am not a mind reader, nor have I spoken to Mario Vargas Llosa personally about what the meaning of this statement. Someday however if I have the greatest fortune I will be able to ask him in person what he meant by this statement. However taking liberties with Mr. Llosa’s thoughts I believe what he meant when he spoke this paragraph was that “Freedom” is the basic fundamental point everyone should strive for in their life. With “freedom” comes power, but more on that later.
“---- you never achieve real equality anyway.” For all the feel good warm itchy sensations of thinking, you have “changed” something by telling a person or race of people that they are equality in the over all scheme of things means absolutely nothing. Llosa said you could never reach real quality anyway. Equality is a word, equality is a thought, equality is a dream, equality is what people write about yet no one is equal to another in real life. The most barbaric totalitarian governments and rigid socialist regimes led by vile pieces of human excrement such as Fidel Alejandro Castro Ru, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, Saloth Sar also known as Pol Pot, Mao Zedong, Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili also known as Joseph Stalin, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov also known as Vladimir Lenin have enslaved, and killed more people in the last 150 years in the name of “equality” than most people can imagine. Not a few hundred thousand, but over a hundred million people have been murdered or are now enslaved in the name of equality.
In the famous preamble of the Declaration of Independence, there are certain “rights” or principles set forth stating that people have the right. Quote: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.” Unquote.
Martin Luther King, Jr a Baptist minister, civil rights activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement did not care about “equality” for blacks in American. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his life so a whole group of people could have freedom. Freedom to choice, freedom to obtain an education in any school or university of their choiring. The freedom to work and live anywhere they choice. Martin Luther King, Jr., did not die that Thursday April 4th, 1963 in Memphis so you could be equal, he died so you could be free.
Once more Mario Vargas Llosa said. “----you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion." In the preamble of the Declaration of Independence it is written in black and white that “all me are created equal,” but without freedom as Mr. Llosa says, I also believe you have nothing.
You sacrifice your success, and hard work for an illusion, a deceptive sense of reality that everyone wants to be equal, and that appearance that everyone is equal. Not all people want to be equal. There is a group or assemblage of people who are content with being second class, meaning they are not equal in some peoples eye. Many of this group are content with living in a manner that might be seen as distressing or even painful to others. An example is members of certain fanatical religious sects in the Middle East who are content with living in what some might consider backward, morally depredating treatment of women and children. Should you lower your lifestyle so you could be equal with theses religious cults? Or should these groups be shunned, condemned or ridiculed into excepting your lifestyle ---- thus they are equal. You can squalor all your prosperity, success, and richness of life on trying to lift anyone from the gutter. This feel good philosophy is the illusion, the distortion of reality ---- the sacrifice of you prosperity for an illusion, and the illusion is that warm fuzzy feeling that does absolutely nothing in the scheme of life.
If money is the great equalizer then the one hundred trillion with a “T” should have made us all equal. The liberal’s Great Society was started by Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Johnson who was one of the countries biggest political shyster until Al Gore the inventor of the internet came along. Now we have the grand-daddy of con men with Obama and his Maoist thuggery that are trying to sacrificed this countries prosperity with liberal feel good programs that will give tens of trillions (That is Trillions with a “T”) of dollars to every con organization that comes down the leftist pike for an illusion that "they" are making everyone equal.
Between the thieves in the White House, and in the Congress and Senate with their Health Care scam, Acorn, a few hundred other leftist liberal front groups, and one hundred and twenty million illegal aliens have flooded into this nation since the Great Societies inception; WE ARE BROKE and getting ready to totally implode!
Mario Vergas Llosa is right when he asked if you wanted "Prosperity or egalitarianism." It is time, and "you have to choose." I am with Llosa when he said, "I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway, you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
Now what is so hard to understand about this?
Triton Mareno
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