How do we get over knowing that life is a lottery and that undeserving people will never get their just deserts? Because if we didn't then how would we ever be content or even happy? You are more than welcome to sit in jealousy and rage but part of "the grass is always greener" is emotional complacency. If you've ever read Rawls Theory of Justice you know that material equality is almost incompatible with all other kinds (legal,ethical) and that justice is a tool for ideals such as equality, but it doesn't exist on its own. It's an ideal that should be strived toward. How don't we fall into bitterness? I have cultivated a sense of gratitude for what I have but at the same time I recognize I lack things that I think I want but have a seemingly inherent ambivalence, a powerlessness that recognizes I was not born a certain way.Īll men are created equal is not a fact. We are randomly generated, arbitrarily conditioned flukes. In my opinion, everyone is some kind of fluke, an accident of biology and environment. And that's how Thomas Ligotti summarizes people: We are born of our parents, whose status and health and every other variable imaginable is subject to chance. It seems very clear to me that we are not born equal, that there is a very real birth lottery and people instinctually know this. but it's so easy to sit and envy the lives of others. None of us got to pick our parents, our face, our location, our strengths and weaknesses, etc. What I am troubled by is how not to be troubled by our facticity. Today, seeing into the lives of the young, rich, and beautiful, the opportunities they are afforded seem to come from their having parents with status or genetics that predisposed them to their continued fortunes of wealth and physical attractiveness.
ALL MEN ARE BORN EQUAL WINDOWS
These windows are what make 'all men are born equal' seem ridiculous, something for imbecile simpletons to hold onto as hope or some sort of justice.
It's easy to see and imagine, superficially, what is going on in someone's life, what they have, their opportunities and fortunes or, conversely, misfortunes. Take a look at TV, at social media, the Web. We live in a time where there exists more windows into each other's lives than ever before. New Reddit Existential Philosophy Support for Existential Crisis Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction - Thomas Flynn.Existentialism: A Reconstruction - David E.An Introduction to Existentialism - Robert G.Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy - William Barrett.Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre.
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