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The Nightmare of Total Equality - A Warning to The World
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In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the nightmare of total equality, a society in which equality is finally achieved, but at the cost of freedom and individuality. One’s utopia is another’s dystopia.

We’ll be exploring the increasing promotion of equality to the point of it being absurd as a consequence of the “unheard cry for meaning” that plagues modern society. The modern age is characterised by a sense of disorientation of not knowing what to do with one’s life. Nietzsche’s foresaw nihilism as an inevitable consequence of the Death of God, where God is replaced with public opinion, the entertainment culture, and the State. Without objective values, we fall into relativism, making us fall prey to authoritarianism and conformism, as displayed by George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984.

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(0:00) Introduction: The Nightmare of Total Equality
(1:40) Disorientation and Nihilism
(4:10) Living a Meaningful Life
(4:43) The Problem of Relativism
(5:23) Totalitarianism and Conformism
(7:45) Preachers of Equality
(11:20) Pathos of Distance: The Overman and The Last Man
(12:25) Orwell’s Warning: 1984

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📝 Sources

- Westen, P. (1983). To Lure the Tarantula from Its Hole: A Response. Columbia Law Review, 83(5), 1186-1208.
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@Eternalised

2 years ago

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@enbilerfrainitiald8529

2 years ago

“All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.” - John F. Kennedy

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@AG10381

2 years ago

“There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.” by George Orwell

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@PJ-ns6um

2 years ago

"Individuals search for truth but groups search for consensus— and society is the largest group. So the biggest problem we run into is this: What society wants for you is not always what’s good for you. -Naval Ravikant

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@mysticsunshinestudios

1 year ago

"However, those who call themselves 'the good and the just' and wish to punish and impose their views on others are not to be trusted." Nietzsche literally foretold the future in this quote. I am literally in tears right now. This has been something weighing on my analytical mind for some time. It's heartbreaking to see this information is available, and so many people are blind, lost, or simply unmotivated to learn about anything outside of the limited spectrum of entertainment. That's literally the only thing now a days. With tik tok being the epitome of this quote, and some corners of YouTube also echoing this sick culture.

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@ivansilva8746

2 years ago

What people wants with equality is in terms for accessibility. Not to do the same. Not to lose our real identity, not the one imposed. We all have different skills.

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@lenardregencia

1 year ago

'Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.' — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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@MrBalaki97

2 years ago

I remember Harrison bergeron so deeply from reading it in a literature book when I was in school. I'll never forget this a great tale. Amazing

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@ZieSpiralOut

2 years ago

An important distinction lies between “equality of opportunity” and “equality of outcome”. Wow some of the comments are gross. butthurt rebuttals for no reason, I didn’t even give you my opinion at any point. Or, they are saying duh, how obvious. Well some people aren’t quite as brilliant as you all are so maybe this is the first time they heard that, or the first time it actually sinks in. What I was hoping for was a friendly discussion.

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@biohazard0482

2 years ago

I feel like I have stumbled into the "wrong side" of the internet, once again, but this time it's not weird or quirky... its concerning.

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@pedrohenriquedadaltdequeir4859

2 years ago

People shouldn't be literaly equal. People should be equal in their freedom to develop their own uniqueness. Equal in their power to become who they will.

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@jamesstaggs4160

1 year ago

I spent 7 years of my life in the Tennessee State prison system and I can tell you that's the end result of "let's make everyone equal". Everyone was pretty much in the same clothes, had the same possessions, same manner of housing, ate the same food, got paid about the same amount of money from jobs that ranged from busywork to brutal (the pay was .17 and hour up to .54 an hour). The only way to "get ahead" was through illegal activities or violence, and the people running the show (the guards can be stand ins for government) got to do pretty much whatever they liked and were paid much more. It's not a perfect 1:1 but it's close.

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@caiusKeys

1 year ago

Yes--equality and justice are highly problematic concepts when taken to extremes, especially when it crowds out concepts like truth and fair play.

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@jeremiahlarkins618

2 years ago

In the case of strong people being forced to wear weights, that’s just gonna make them stronger and faster.

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@samuellhemon6319

2 years ago

Truly appreciate your hard work

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@nitsugaparodi8521

2 years ago

Good video. For those who like "animal farm" I recommend "animal riot" by Kostamarov. Although literature has given us great dystopias (We, Brave new world, The tragedy of man) and incredible visions of the horror of utopias and nihilism (Notes from undeground, Demons, The seven madmen), reality always surpasses fiction and who knows what the future that awaits us will be like.

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@MrTheBoycie

2 years ago

There's a huge floor in all. Different sex's doesn't mean no equality. Different strengths isn't a difference in equality. Being intelligent or not isn't non equality. Equality is equal treatment and opportunity, not characteristics. Clearly we have more of a problem with some, in what equality actually is.

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@jackviggo6342

1 year ago

I do believe that in majority the equality modern western society is trying to achieve is in means of accessibility for all; that no one is restricted from receiving fair treatment and life rather than becoming equal in all facets of life to the point of the extermination of individuality. If anything it is trying to create a space to express your indivuality without being oppressed for it.

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@pol85eu89

2 years ago

Equality of opportunity is not the same as total equality.. and if you look around, most stable social democracies are not striving for ‘total’ equality.. but simply an eradication of discrimination that stops people from getting on with their lives

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@raskolnikovman936

2 years ago

“It’s a strange paradox, that the liberals are illiberal in their demand for liberality. They are exclusive in their demand for inclusivity. They are homogenous in their demand for heterogeneity. They are somehow un-diverse in their call for diversity — you can be diverse, but not diverse in your opinions and in your language and in your behaviour. And that’s a terrible pity." - Stephen Fry Amazing.

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