Little Observation

There are different connotations to that idea of equality – financial equality, social equality, civic equality, equality of worth… you wouldn’t think a janitor is equally capable of performing brain surgery for the same reason you shouldn’t think all people being equal implies they’re all the same. But in a sense everyone is the same; we’re all free-floating, isolated perspectives with the same innate qualities. Just some people use some qualities more than others and so become different. Different can be good or bad, depending on the perspective, but generally speaking, people are afraid of different. If it doesn’t fall within the spectrum of their carefully defined, well-explored focus of reality, it’s strange, wild, unusual, maybe even mystical.

If you want to throw a normal person into a mental tizzy, especially office people, or anyone who has a narrow band of specialization, just ask them how a refrigerator works. They might have some basic idea about it, but the practical reality is, they throw food in there and the food stays cold. When the food no longer stays cold, well, damn, the fridge needs replacing. Everyone is an idiot, including me. Take outside perspectives with a grain of salt because nobody knows anything outside their own perspective.