By Scary Halloween
the elementary school's annual Easter Egg Hunt.
Sadly each child was to hunt for only 14 eggs. Once they found 14 they were
instructed to stop so that each student would have 14 eggs.
This is so unfair. Now I don't usually subscribe to fair and unfair.
Life is for each person what it is. Some are
stronger, faster, smarter, and better looking than others.
It is the circumstance of genetics.
As humans we are responsible to develop or waste what we are given.
However, when our society starts attempting to make everything equal and fair,
then it is unfair to go against the natural order of birth and the individual.
It robs from our birth right the journey to discover our individual gifts,
our strengths and our weaknesses and place in this world.
Can you imagine what it was like for the students that have a better
visual acuity, are faster and more clever with the the context clues as
to the whereabouts of hidden eggs,
to wait around for the other kids to find their fourteen eggs?
How exciting it must of been for the more competitive children to
hurry up get their 14 eggs and then do nothing.
It must of been so great for the kids less skilled to be the last
still searching for the less obviously hidden eggs.
Why didn't the school just hand out the eggs?
It would not have been any more futile.
"Here kid, takes theses eggs and go home."
Kurt Vonnegut published his short story
"Harrison Bergeron", in 1961.
48 years later this tale of a society is coming true.
Soon we will live in Vonnegut's absurd world
where the strong are artificially weakened by sandbags to
exhibit equal strength to all,
the attractive are prosthetically altered to look plain like everyone,
and the intelligent hear a horrible noise every few minutes to disrupt
their thoughts so that they have the same IQ as everyone.
We wonder why is society slipping. How did entitlement
lead to this? Everyone gets the same? No suffering? No challenge?
No choice to work or quit to succeed or fail?
Giving people something for nothing
couldn't possibly take away their motivation and most importantly
their dignity.
If you think that socialism works you are a person
who lives in fear or anger, afraid and angry, going about life
wanting and jealous of those who have what you wouldn't earn.
Or
You "pity" those who don't have what you have
or you chose socialist beliefs due to guilt for having
more than others.
Regardless, I don't want any help.
Just love, encouragement and healthy guidance.
Let me find my way to natural ability,
earned self improvement. It is most human of us
to struggle and develop with independence
regardless of success or failure.
