PROSPERITY or EGALITARIANISM --You have to choose. 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 -- you have to choose.
I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway,
you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway,
you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion."
When I first read those words that Mario Vargas Llosa had spoken during Peruvian Independence Day Celebration in 1991, I was struck with his clarity of truth, the wisdom of his words. I immediately began scouring the Internet for more of his works. I spend hours translating his book entitled La ciudad y los perros, which literally translated to "The City and the Dogs." After all, I had spent some time with some Peruvian paramilitary, special operation personnel known as Group 5, during the fall of President Fujimori reign. "The City and the Dogs" title was later changed to “The Time of the Hero,” and eventually made into a movie. I fell in love with his works long before Mario Vargas Llosa became the Nobel Prize laureate 2010 for Literature. The Bad Girl a novel set in Peru in 1950 had so many similarities to my on being and loves in Peru, it was if he had picked my brain
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The following is a look at my take on his words.
Prosperity or egalitarianism? Prosperity or, the word that you did not see was “or.” 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 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 think what he meant when he wrote this paragraph was that “Freedom” is the basic fundamental question that 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 exactly nothing. Llosa said you could never achieve total equality anyway. Equality is a word, 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 such people 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 college of their choosing. 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 men are created equal,” but without freedom as Mr. Llosa says, I also think you have nothing.
You forfeit 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 satisfied with being second class, meaning they are not equal in some peoples eye. Many of this category are satisfied with living in a manner that might be seen as disturbing 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 your prosperity for an illusion. The illusion that a warm fuzzy feeling has precisely nothing in the scheme of life.
If money is the consummate 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 sacrificed this countries prosperity with a feel good program that has given trillions (That is Trillions with a “T”) for an dream that has made everyone equal. One hundred and twenty million illegal aliens have flooded into this nation since the Great Societie's beginning. Do you known how much money one trillion dollars is? Can you imagine how much a trillion dollars is? Here is an example. If you were to spend one (1) million dollars per day, every day since the birth of Jesus Christ until the moment that you read this post, you would not have spent one trillion dollars.
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The following is a look at my take on his words.
Prosperity or egalitarianism? Prosperity or, the word that you did not see was “or.” 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 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 think what he meant when he wrote this paragraph was that “Freedom” is the basic fundamental question that 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 exactly nothing. Llosa said you could never achieve total equality anyway. Equality is a word, 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 such people 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 college of their choosing. 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 men are created equal,” but without freedom as Mr. Llosa says, I also think you have nothing.
You forfeit 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 satisfied with being second class, meaning they are not equal in some peoples eye. Many of this category are satisfied with living in a manner that might be seen as disturbing 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 your prosperity for an illusion. The illusion that a warm fuzzy feeling has precisely nothing in the scheme of life.
If money is the consummate 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 sacrificed this countries prosperity with a feel good program that has given trillions (That is Trillions with a “T”) for an dream that has made everyone equal. One hundred and twenty million illegal aliens have flooded into this nation since the Great Societie's beginning. Do you known how much money one trillion dollars is? Can you imagine how much a trillion dollars is? Here is an example. If you were to spend one (1) million dollars per day, every day since the birth of Jesus Christ until the moment that you read this post, you would not have spent one trillion dollars.
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