#myworld #rant

#myworld #rant
Why does discrimination exist? I am of the opinion that if anything exists for a long time, it might have been selected to exist for reasons that have not yet been completely taken apart.

Maybe the reason evolution has selected discrimination is so that the unspeakably talented live in an unjustified fear of the majority, so that they are forced to show us the patience we refuse to show the less well-adapted minority.

But once in a while we are overwhelmed by raw talent, before whom we are conceivably utter rubbish, those who in their lifetimes know how to live as they will, turning whole societies upside down, leaving a legacy we take generations to digest.

We find ourselves caught between the statistical bias we see in them and our own survival instinct, which rationalizes that we are on the disadvantageous end of the equation.

We feel uneasy about this conflict, and rush to call it the hand of God or karma - to save us from having to come to terms with the fact that the same statistical distribution that put them there, could also have put us amongst the minority we feel the least comfortable around.

We are acutely aware that limited resources means without redistribution someone will get less, but we don't want to think about it.

We don't want to think about how helpless we are. We would rather invent an emotion we call guilt - so that we torture ourselves inside than admit that we are not brave enough to look beyond the statistical bias, to see beyond the hand of God.

And when we feel overwhelmed by guilt, we invent discrimination. We explain away the guilt that we invented, and create a reality that stacks the hand of God against the minority - no matter which end of the curve they come from. Not realizing that we, the majority, are the eye and the mind of God, moving the powerful hand of discrimination against the lesser parts among us that would have made us whole.