The Abundance of Deceit

> I increasingly feel that having any social consciousness is a drawback.

Close, but backwards. Social consciousness is universal to society, but exploited by individuals for short-term gain.

I get there’s disenchantment with the status quo, and a desire to try something new because all the old tools just seem to break the machine even more than fix it.

But what’s always troubled me is that there’s no real difference between a rich man and a poor man other than the random consequences of their births. At its core, nature is the same across the socioeconomic strata, and across cultural boundaries. So, I think if the poor man was born rich, and vice versa, and you did that with all the poor men and rich men everywhere, the world would still be the same. Why shouldn’t it be?

The average western citizen or student is taught some framework of enlightenment ideals, so maybe they’ve somehow fooled themselves into thinking that making people equally rich, or switching the positions of the rich and poor, will result in some material difference to morality and ethics of the world. It definitely didn’t happen every time people tried that in history, like in Italy, USSR, or even China. So what will you do now that will result in something different? There’s some need for reflection here.

There’s no justice without acknowledging the truth, and there’s no truth in a world based on realpolitiks. Sadly, idealpolitiks are just another political trick. The moral relativism needs to be shed first to make some progress towards truth-seeking.