The Biggest Lie We Tell Ourselves and Our Children


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DATE: Oct. 19, 2016, 3:05 p.m.

UPDATED: Oct. 19, 2016, 3:08 p.m.

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  1. Next to the religious story of Adam and Eve and the Garden Of Eden,the biggest social lie is that we tell ourselves and our children is that "All Men Are Created Equally".The only remote truth about this statement is that we are all conceived in the same way.The idea that our traits don't make us different, and therefore unequal, is simply absurd. It is exceeded in its absurdity only by the idea that we are not different from one another at all.
  2. This is the heart of my claim. The idea that we are all equal is not life-affirming. It's inhuman and anti-human. Our inequalities, differences, quirks, and dissimilarities are what is interesting about us and ....
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