And so what?
June 22nd 2007 12:11
Hey all.
Getting togheter the conclusions of the 2 last posts. In the first, we talk about the importance of merit to any society. In the second, the value of equality to it.
And if you're asking yourself why the hell we are talking about these 2 things and considering this an evaluation on how societies work, please take a look at this one here.
So. I'd like first to point out that i'm using this way of seeing things because i thought it would be interesting to change the point of view we have when speaking about a big number of individuals. Normally we tend to almost forget "the unit" while talking about a lot of them, but the intent of these posts are to analyse from the small to the bigger picture. From how the individual thinks to get how the collectivities, and then the hole society will think. In a pensée élargie way.
Well, taking a look in the 2 last posts we can see that, for both to work, one thing is needed from everyone, education. I do not mean only education at school, but everything that involves culture and other things around it.
I mean, for an equalitarian society to work people have to understand why they are paying so much taxes and trying to get better everyday if this won't give them more money by the end of the month.
On the other case (merit), education is needed from everyone, not only to have a better "starting point", but to understand why his society values this, and that he can't consider it right if people do not compete in the same levels.
In the end, what lacks for each one of these systems to work fine is education. If people are educated (if they have access to culture, good parents who explain and teach them, etc. not only a good school) both seem to work fine.
And thinking a little more about it, you can see that in the end, the system doesn't matter. If the people have enought education, they can all reach these conclusions (or be teached them) by themselves. It is quite clear that "we should reward merit" and that "we should treat people as equals" are sentences we all agree. The balance between those 2 can be reached in plenty of ways, and plenty of ideas are possible.
But the first thing you need for anything to work is education! Otherwise people won't even understand why they're paying so much taxes, or why it is good to have people who are rewarded by their merit (if not with prizes, with money)..
And where's the place and the future of a government when people are enought educated? That's the question for a next post. But now it's time for a beer brake.
Seeya! Uula
Getting togheter the conclusions of the 2 last posts. In the first, we talk about the importance of merit to any society. In the second, the value of equality to it.
And if you're asking yourself why the hell we are talking about these 2 things and considering this an evaluation on how societies work, please take a look at this one here.
So. I'd like first to point out that i'm using this way of seeing things because i thought it would be interesting to change the point of view we have when speaking about a big number of individuals. Normally we tend to almost forget "the unit" while talking about a lot of them, but the intent of these posts are to analyse from the small to the bigger picture. From how the individual thinks to get how the collectivities, and then the hole society will think. In a pensée élargie way.
Well, taking a look in the 2 last posts we can see that, for both to work, one thing is needed from everyone, education. I do not mean only education at school, but everything that involves culture and other things around it.
I mean, for an equalitarian society to work people have to understand why they are paying so much taxes and trying to get better everyday if this won't give them more money by the end of the month.
On the other case (merit), education is needed from everyone, not only to have a better "starting point", but to understand why his society values this, and that he can't consider it right if people do not compete in the same levels.
In the end, what lacks for each one of these systems to work fine is education. If people are educated (if they have access to culture, good parents who explain and teach them, etc. not only a good school) both seem to work fine.
And thinking a little more about it, you can see that in the end, the system doesn't matter. If the people have enought education, they can all reach these conclusions (or be teached them) by themselves. It is quite clear that "we should reward merit" and that "we should treat people as equals" are sentences we all agree. The balance between those 2 can be reached in plenty of ways, and plenty of ideas are possible.
But the first thing you need for anything to work is education! Otherwise people won't even understand why they're paying so much taxes, or why it is good to have people who are rewarded by their merit (if not with prizes, with money)..
And where's the place and the future of a government when people are enought educated? That's the question for a next post. But now it's time for a beer brake.
Seeya! Uula
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