(66) Fairness and Equity

On August 10th I was going to the market little after 8:00 in the evening, and I decided to stop at this mini taco stand on paramount Blvd. (thinking of buying a couple quick taco’s). I ordered two tacos and it seems the food is not prepared, and I am wondering if the food is premade or if it has to be cooked from scratch. I guess I expected the food to be prepared in warmers like many of these taco stands do. I asked the nice lady if the food was premade or if it has to be cooked from scratch it so happens that she does not speak English. Another customer asked me what I mean, so I tried to ask her the same thing and she tried to ask the worker with no luck. Any ways some of the food was prepared and I see that some wasn’t it just all needed to be put on the grill to be heated. I kind of like when they have the warmer for quicker service, and luckily the carne asada was premade and just needed to be warmed up. Interestingly, I come home and on the 9:00 o clock news shows an irate lady pull up to a taco stand and assault the taco stand worker. It did not explain why the lady physically attacked the worker. It just makes you wonder is the world getting so ghetto that it is not even safe to go out anymore. Who promotes or what leads to bigotry or the tensions that is leading to the anger and violence that we are seeing becoming more escalated in the world today?

I find that if you try to stand against inequality that you will just get it thrown back at you, and at times even in an angry rage. The difference of treating people as equal or the contrast when people are demeaning towards others it seems that there is always someone that believes that they are superior to others. It is sad when this takes place, because there is always an inferior that gets bullied and beat up on so someone else can be better. It is Just not fair, and it begs the question is it fairness that is the missing link, and what is the difference if people are being treated equitable or not? Why is it that there always has to be someone superior today at the expense of treating other people as subordinates, therefore seeing people as inferior and treating them as such?

What ever happened to not be having to be perfect, superior, or hyper critical of oneself and/or others and just being and seeing people as average? It is like enough with the drama already. For example, to not have the need to perceive others by viewing or judging them on a social hierarchy as ordinate/subordinate, and being compelled to treat others as a way to put them in their place (people with big ego’s do this). Instead, whatever happened to just being average, therefore seeing and treating people as such. Removing the competitive component out of the equation by accepting others for who they are and treating them with respect, rather than being hypercritical towards one another is important and is one way to make for positive change. If we just see ourselves and others as being average (equal) instead of the need to be superior to others, then this could stop the hatred that is being portrayed, and through this more positive lens of equality comes the hope of living in ways that prevent rather than promote all the violence that is currently on the rise in our society.

Alexis De Tocqueville one influential philosopher always tried to find ways to preserve democracy. Tocqueville saw egotism and selfishness as vices, he saw individualism as not a failure of feeling, but as a way of thinking about things which could have either positive consequences such as a willingness to work together, or negative consequences such as isolation and that individualism could be remedied by improved understanding. wikipedia