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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 664170" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>We are afraid we will be hated for it, reviled and set apart. Shunned, even.</p><p></p><p>Do you remember the story ~ I don't remember the writer or the title. Anyway, it was about the masks and weights and other encumbrances people without deformity or with appearances or intellects that could be construed as threatening to those whose appearances or intellects or whatever it was, could not be construed as threatening, were forced to don in public that the others not be shamed or made to feel less than.</p><p></p><p>A ballerina, required to dance with clanking weights on her ankles and wrists, and with a mask on her face.</p><p></p><p>Stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>Innovation, in that society, stopped. Every effort was made to make everyone equal. And in that effort, the society manufactured its own doom.</p><p></p><p>Which is an arrogant story, and I get that. But I have never forgotten it, either.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>P.S. Okay, you guys. I always think about that story as we all are struggling now in our societies, to figure out how to accomplish justice.</p><p></p><p>I always think too, about the thought pattern that enables belief in the understanding that each of us, exactly as we are, possess a wild variation of exactly the gifts and talents required, and the thought pattern that believes, however it is disguised, that some of us just don't have what is required and never could and never will.</p><p></p><p>And then, I think about Animal Farm.</p><p></p><p>Remember? All are equal. But some are more equal than others.</p><p></p><p>I think about that stuff. I think about it in how we see our troubled kids, too. Respect. It comes down to respect and to trust, somehow.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 664170, member: 17461"] We are afraid we will be hated for it, reviled and set apart. Shunned, even. Do you remember the story ~ I don't remember the writer or the title. Anyway, it was about the masks and weights and other encumbrances people without deformity or with appearances or intellects that could be construed as threatening to those whose appearances or intellects or whatever it was, could not be construed as threatening, were forced to don in public that the others not be shamed or made to feel less than. A ballerina, required to dance with clanking weights on her ankles and wrists, and with a mask on her face. Stuff like that. Innovation, in that society, stopped. Every effort was made to make everyone equal. And in that effort, the society manufactured its own doom. Which is an arrogant story, and I get that. But I have never forgotten it, either. Cedar P.S. Okay, you guys. I always think about that story as we all are struggling now in our societies, to figure out how to accomplish justice. I always think too, about the thought pattern that enables belief in the understanding that each of us, exactly as we are, possess a wild variation of exactly the gifts and talents required, and the thought pattern that believes, however it is disguised, that some of us just don't have what is required and never could and never will. And then, I think about Animal Farm. Remember? All are equal. But some are more equal than others. I think about that stuff. I think about it in how we see our troubled kids, too. Respect. It comes down to respect and to trust, somehow. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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