{"id":183,"date":"2025-05-01T10:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/life-is-hierarchical\/"},"modified":"2025-05-01T10:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T10:12:09","slug":"life-is-hierarchical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/life-is-hierarchical\/","title":{"rendered":"Life is Hierarchical"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">An old lie of leftists is compressed into one of their more recent abuses of language: &#39;equity.&#39; So-called &#39;equity&#39; is wokespeak for equality of outcome or result. &#39;Equity&#39;&#0160; in this obfuscatory sense cannot occur and ought not be pursued. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">It cannot occur because people are not equal either as individuals or as groups. That is a plain fact. Leftists won&#39;t face it, however, because they confuse the world as they would like it to be with the world as it is.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">&#39;Equity&#39; ought not be pursued because its implementation is possible only by the violation of the liberty of the individual by a totalitarian state apparatus precisely unequal in power to those it would equalize.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Life is a ladder.&#0160; It is many ladders, as many as there are directions of achievement. On any ladder, some are above, some below. Look up without envy; look down without contempt. Climb as high as you can on as many ladders as you are on.&#0160; Lend a hand to those below; if any you help should surpass you, take satisfaction at your mentorship and pride in their accomplishment.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An old lie of leftists is compressed into one of their more recent abuses of language: &#39;equity.&#39; So-called &#39;equity&#39; is wokespeak for equality of outcome or result. &#39;Equity&#39;&#0160; in this obfuscatory sense cannot occur and ought not be pursued. It cannot occur because people are not equal either as individuals or as groups. That is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/life-is-hierarchical\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Life is Hierarchical&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,163,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament","category-leftism-and-political-correctness","category-wokery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}