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RE: Equality – Drop in the Ocean Fiction – Choices
I always dig your social commentary fiction. You get so much into them: the rich complain more than the poor ever did, an elite class gets (maybe) the best deals, people who think they are better than others, assumption that government standard issue packages would be of lower quality.
May this never come to pass, at least not again.
When I start writing something like this I rarely know how deep I'm going to go, in recognizing or inferring ties in what I'm writing to what we see in the present reality. Think about what being a billionaire must be like, knowing that there is absolutely nothing of value for sale that you cannot easily afford several. People everywhere suck up to you just because you are so wealthy.
A pretty heady way of life, and I think it would be easy to begin thinking you are possibly a god or something, and that's why you have all the wealth and can have anything you want. They're "special," and they know it. Remember the rich brat that the judge didn't put in jail because he suffered from "affluenza?"
I'm still waiting to see how Lori Laughlin gets to plead not guilty when she obviously is, and then the prosecutors come out talking big and will STILL likely just give her a wrist slap at the most. The 2 tiers of justice must be kept intact at all costs.
Do you think it will ever change? I know this situation comes up again and again in civilizations, and that any country in modern times that tries to rectify it (I'm thinking specifically China and Mao here) eventually falls back into the haves and the have nots. In the case of China it took less than one lifetime to do it. Is it hopeless? Perhaps we would do better to pity the rich and let that go out of vogue. I'm starting today - those poor rich slobs, slaves to their stuff and their money, hollow existence, no hope of redemption.
I'm always kind of pessimistic when it comes to humanity ever shunning its greed for both wealth and power. We are too forgiving of greed and the damage the greedy do to the rest of us on a daily basis.
I don't know, maybe your idea could be a starting point, but I think the allure will always be excessively strong, making mass rejection pretty hopeless.
I love to keep a look out for the seven deadly sins, and avarice is one of them. They will take their place in one of the circles of hell for it, and deserve our pity, not our envy, lest we overdo in the envy department ourselves. That said, I would not mind having a tad more money, a tad more time to rest, a tad better food, a tad more love-making, a tad more confidence, a tad less jealousy (perhaps that's my deadly sin). there is always one sin I can't remember, and it's not always the same one. I have avarice, sloth, envy, gluttony, lust, hubris here. What am I missing?
I wasn't sure so I looked it up and got this:
Pride, greed, lust, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth. Looks like wrath is what you're missing.
Wrath! There's always one I can not remember, today it was wrath. Thanks for looking it up I was writing! lol
I just posted an entry for the PHC contest, first time using that app for me.