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The End of Superficiality
Why do people lie? Why do people cheat? Why do we all pretend to be that which
we are not? The reason - if we fail to live up to what's expected of us, our
very survival is at risk. What we truly are and other people's perception of us
matters.
Now, imagine a world where everyone's survival is secured. Would people and
organizations go to the lengths they go to today to convince you of their worth?
Would they have to? No, they wouldn't have to, but they may want to. But
certainly, they wouldn't have to. There is the difference. People have no choice
in today's world - they have to meet or exceed standards, good or bad. They
cannot relax and be themselves. But when survival is secured - you don't have to
bother what the other person thinks. You can truly say, for the first time in
history, "I don't give a damn what you think."
People would try to cheat less often, people would get cheated less often. You
would want to cheat less often, you would be falsely impressed less often. Not
just would everyone be less dependent on what others think of them, others
wouldn't be bothered about who you really are since their life too, is secured
and there is nothing you can do to upset their lives in any manner. Even if you
thought the worst of someone, it's your opinion and you are entitled to have any
opinion about anybody, just like everyone else, but you are not entitled to act
upon that opinion so as to disrupt that person's life in the least, no matter
who you are, just like everyone else.
Even if your opinion is true and that someone truly is the worst person ever, it
would make no difference to that person's life. He or she is the worst - but no
one, absolutely no one has the right to disrupt his or her life, just as that
worst person is unable to disrupt anyone else's life. Such a world, a truly fair
and unsuperficial world would come into existence if parents were required by
law to pay for an entire lifespan of the offspring's basic needs and the
government or some other agency gave back that money in equally divided amounts,
at equal intervals of time, throughout the offspring's lifespan.
A world where you are accepted for who you are. A world where being weak is as
good as being strong. A world where being beautiful is as good as being ugly. A
world where you are who you are and no one else.
A world where it does not matter if you are stupid or ignorant. A world where
the dumb, deaf, stupid and ignorant are equal to the able, agile, learned and
successful. A world where the strong of today are unable to dominate or exploit
the comparatively weaker. A world where the beautiful and prosperous aren't
admired and respected any more than the ugly and struggling. You have a right to
be anyone or anything, as long as you do not infringe upon the rights of others
to be anyone or anything. If you do, you have to stop. You must be stopped. But
your right to be who you were born as - dumb, deaf, ignorant, stupid, able,
agile, learned, beautiful, ugly, rich or poor - will be yours. You can be any of
those things and remain so throughout your life, without having to change into
something else so as to meet your survival needs. You can survive without being
pressured by anyone to change who you are. No one would see any benefit in
changing who you are in a world where the strong, talented, knowledgeable,
beautiful or prosperous cannot exploit those who are not so. Your unique
identity would remain untouched, treated as sacred and as precious as the
identity of the rich and famous gets to be treated today. All these are things
thought of as impossible, but as you can see, they are not so.
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