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amys reading lately
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quote:
True equality is not simply a matter of an equality of human rights and the ownership of property. Such equality concerns man as the subject of desires and rights and comes down, in the final analysis, to the self-centered mode of being of man himself. It has yet to depart fundamentally from the principle of self-love. And therein the roots of discord and strife lie ever concealed. True equality, on the contrary comes about in what we might call the reciprocal interchange of absolute inequality, such that the self and the other stand simultaneously in the position of absolute master and absolute servant with regard to one another. It is an equality of love.
Only on the field of emptiness does all this become possible. Unless the thoughts and deeds of man one and all be located on such a field, the sorts of problems that beset humanity have no chance of every really being solved.
end quote
so he says we can be unequal equals, but only within the context of emptiness. i think society, in general, though, has a hard time being that, erm, unproductive. maybe if we all got into the fields plucking rice, strawberries, and having group feasts once a week, could we really feel affects. otherwise what do you do with envy? what do you do with greed?
(quote from William Irwin Thompson Transforming History: I guess the author's just setting the scene and i shouldn't take it all that seriously... or lightly... or whatever. )
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