On Mediocrity

Mediocrity is based on pre-established standard. This standard is not a high one to be reached by whoever can, but a low one that everyone can adhere to, but no one allowed surpassing. This standard is low enough, so that the lowest of the low can reach it. In fact, it is not that the standard is reached by everyone, but it is that everyone is included by the standard.

All persons are created unequal. People, when compared to one another, turn out to be better than another, or worse than another. People, when compared to one another, are compared to one another in degrees of ability and achievement.

To believe that all people are created equal is wrong. To make all people equal, is not done by investing more on those fall behind, until they attain the level that the excelled have reached. People are made equal by dragging everyone down to the lowest denomination standard, the standard that the one at the very bottom can achieve without difficulty.

Those who excel above this level are threatened with punishment should they try to exceed this level, which for them is just too easy. If they do, they are punished for hurting the feelings of those who cannot surpass the standard. Excelling becomes despised, and everyone becomes happy and complacent with their low level that most could exceed, which would not be enforced by threat of punishment were it not for those who couldn't exceed it.

Equality satisfies feelings of envy. No one is better than the other, and no one is low enough to envy anyone who is higher than him. Because no one is higher or lower, there is no envy.

If person A has something useful or good, then everyone else must have that useful or good thing. It doesn't matter if person A earned that useful or good thing, as earning is based on achievement, which relies largely on ability.

Hard work is shunned. Working hard means working to achieve something.

Human will is very dangerous to equality, as it might lead to hard work, and then achievement, and then inequality.