First published at 07:22 UTC on December 19th, 2021.
From hereonin things seem to get somewhat complicated. While Equality and Universal Suffrage are things that are relatively easily achievable, I’m not sure other matters can be so easily stated.
I think we would all like to live in an ideal world, …
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From hereonin things seem to get somewhat complicated. While Equality and Universal Suffrage are things that are relatively easily achievable, I’m not sure other matters can be so easily stated.
I think we would all like to live in an ideal world, a Utopia. What right minded person would want otherwise? But I think we must recognize that this is probably not very realistic.
I’m not sure that it’s even possible to create an ideal world.
Perhaps we have to accept that everything we create will fall short of the ideal in some way. It will be less than perfect – deficient / inadequate in some way.
Be that as it may, this does not mean we should just give up, resigning ourselves to our deficiencies / inadequacies. An athlete competing in a high jump attempts to jump as high as they can, do they not? They don’t hold back, deciding not to jump, believing themselves inadequate, or incapable, or believing that jumping such a height is impossible to achieve. Indeed the top athlete will commit to many hours of training, believing themselves capable and believing the jump is possible. Rather than resigning themselves, they rise to the challenge.
We should do likewise in creating the state we wish for. We should train ourselves and try our utmost to achieve the best. And although we will not achieve an ideal, if we aim for an ideal, then we might achieve something decent and worthwhile.
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