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Freedom Beats Equality, Part I

It seems there’s lots of talk these days
about finding equality,
but little talk of what that means,
at least it seems that way to me.
People with jealous intentions
so like to throw around that word,
use it to justify violence,
which is just patently absurd.
Use it to infringe on freedom,
to step on our natural rights,
thinking the word equality
justifies rioting and fights.

Now equality can be good,
like equality under law,
equal expectation of rights,
equal recognition of our flaws.
But if you go much beyond that
equality has little to say,
it’s cliché, yes, it’s so well known:
No two people are ever the same.
No equalness in how we’re made,
and how that will impact our lives,
in fact, if we were truly ‘equal’
our species would not have survived.

An ‘equal’ life would mean sameness,
same body, same instincts, same mind,
but reality is a shifting beast,
a way to destroy us it would find.
And when that day came we’d have no
alternatives to draw upon,
but different minds have different answers,
that’s why we have made it this long.
Though this may mean we don’t achieve
the same things in our everyday life,
it also means we can survive
the world’s regular doses of strife.

To think more of equality
brings up some quite disturbing thoughts,
to be equal we’d have to do things
that go against all morals taught.
We’d have to scar up pretty folks
so they don’t outshine the mundane,
injure the brains of clever souls
to not beat the dumb folk’s metal game.
Then where would innovation come from,
if our smartest are just cut down,
we’d be equally poor and broken,
without aircraft, computers, or towns.

We’d have to make the productive
work less, or they’d beat the lazy,
and we’d have to pay them the same
in the name of this equality.
Would those hard workers keep working
if they got nothing for the stress?
Who would build all the things we need
if the competent gave up, did less?
Since the lazy will not rise up,
the productive must brought low,
all the tech and our food supply
would be amongst the first things to go.

We’d have to knee-cap the sports stars
so they’d equal an overweight dad,
then take our kindest citizens,
and torture them until they are bad.
We’d have to make dark skins lighter
so they could get their vitamin D,
then make the light skins much darker
to fight off cancer equally.
The creative must be made to suck
so the hacks can be on their level,
then round up strong, healthy people
and make them have kids with the feeble.

CONTINUES IN PART II.

Copyright © David Welch | Year Posted 2020

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