Personally, I believe that inequality does have to exist for there to be creativity and free thought in our society. Some are more skilled than others in certain aspects of life and there would be no sense of creativity, due to everybody being equivalent to each other and each person having the same amount of creativity inside themselves. Free thought would also not be evident if everybody was equal because the mental capacity and intelligence of every human would be equivalent, producing the same thoughts. Overemphasizing the importance of praise and trying to hide the feeling of failure from children produces a generation of wimps undoubtedly. If children are not exposed to the sense of failure in their early life they will never be ready to face the sense or cope with the sense of loss or failure. Life is never full of just victories, thus if kids are taught early that failure and loss is apart of life, then they will be accustomed to it and will be able to cope. Overall, if society consisted of only equality and success, then there would be no feeling of not being as skilled as another person or failure which is vital because good cannot exist with bad.
Chase,
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you! If society doesn't allow our kids to learn to cope with loss, children will grow up feeling greed to win and not know the trough aspect of life. I also agree with you when you say life is never full of just victories and that kids need to be taught early on about loss and how to cope with it. Finally, I also agree with you that inequality does have to exist for creativity and freedom, without the harsh reality of inequality itself, us humans won't know the true concept of "beauty" or "creativity". That was a wonderful blog and excited to see what you have to offer later. Come over and play with my dog James some time?
-Tiger Lam
Chase,
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with many of the points that you mention in this blog. Children and todays youth need to experience failure in order to grow and mature. In life there will always be someone who succeeds and someone who fails and it is essential that Children see both parts of the spectrum. I also agree that we need inequality as that gives us motivation to become better. Great Job!
Chase,
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post with many interesting points/ideas. I couldn't agree more with your philosophy on how children need to know failure in order to succeed. I like how you incorporated what will happen if everyone was truly equal and the consequences that will take place. Keep it up my man.