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Keith Daggett

🌹Thomas Sowell’s quote, “No one is equal to anything. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days,” challenges the simplistic notion of equality and highlights the fluidity of human experience.🌹

At its core, the statement argues against rigid definitions of sameness or equivalence, especially when applied to human beings.

Sowell suggests that individuals are in constant flux—physically, mentally, emotionally, and situationally—and as such, cannot be fairly or meaningfully compared either with others or with themselves at different points in time.

This casts doubt on ideological frameworks that insist on equality as uniformity, and instead invites a more nuanced understanding of human complexity.

By observing that even the same individual varies from day to day, Sowell emphasizes the dynamic nature of identity and ability.

A person may be more focused, patient, or energetic one day and entirely different the next due to sleep, stress, nutrition, mood, or circumstance.

This variability means that any attempt to fix individuals into static categories—whether for assessment, judgment, or entitlement—ignores the inherently unstable and evolving nature of human life.

It also implies that personal development, regression, and transformation are natural and unavoidable, making true constancy or equivalence an illusion.

Finally, Sowell’s insight can be seen as a critique of political or philosophical ideologies that treat people as interchangeable units—particularly in economic or social policy.

If people are not even equal to themselves over time, then policies built on assumptions of equality in capability, motivation, or outcomes are likely to be flawed or unjust.

Instead, his remark encourages an appreciation for individuality, imperfection, and the unpredictable journey of each human life.

It invites us to approach both others and ourselves with humility, recognizing that who we are is shaped by an ever-changing interplay of internal and external forces.

Be inspired 📌

#phylosophy#phylosophyoflife#stoicism
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Paul Healey

@flexghost Elon will likely want to build a Cyber Tank next. Fascist narcissists are outnumbered, but oligarchs and dictators have delusions of grandeur, so believe they are apex predators or gods, so living in that virtual cybernetic worlds of game think, imagine
they’re safe. Watching the people go medieval and diabolical on their ass will be quite a spectacle! Gates knows it, that’s why he wants to give away his billions. No matter, once the people know their future is fucked, no bunker and army or private mercenaries will protect the broligarchs. #Vengeance #Elon #EmperorElon #Elon #HumanNature #WhatAWaste #DeathCults #Billionaires #Ecocide #BillionairesAreFascists

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Babu Menos 🎵 #NoAI

I rediscovered something I wrote in my blog about 1½ years ago. It’s something that doesn’t get old and needs constant reminding.

— How Come We Always Assume the Worst in Others? —

Most people are pretty decent, says Dutch historian Rutger Bregman¹, author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2017) and ‘Humankind’ (2020).

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In an eight-minute video² he explains quite plausbily how doomscrolling, using social media, watching and reading the news changes our perception of humankind. We only see all the bad things happening, which makes us quite susceptible to being persuaded of human vileness. On the other hand, if you believe in the goodness of humanity, so often you are dismissed as this naïve person who doesn’t have a realistic view of the world.

But Bregman, after researching the matter, comes to the conclusion that humans are not as evil and raw as they are made out to be. An example: One of the astonishing discoveries from the second World War is that only 15 to 25 per cent of the American soldiers actually fired their guns. They had to be trained and brainwashed to be able to be more ‘effective’ during the Vietnam War.

Another valid point he’s making is that science is the only self-correcting system that we have that sort of criticises itself and then develops and becomes better […] ⬇️

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutger_B
² inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=TXN7QGG

#Sociology#Psychology#Perception
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