1. People are not born with the same 'qualities.'

2. People are not all driven the same way.

3. People do not have cookie cutter motivations.

4. Some people care what others think of them, others do not.

5. Some people have a different view of ethics.

The is no equality, except in the opportunity afforded each person in the same social economic scale in a given community where equal opportunity exists. Then given the environment the person develops in, affected by upbringing, you start changing what happens and how.

My son is his last months of a Phd in social anthropology. Don't talk to him about this, he's sort of Jesuit in his argumentation, and it would take about 40 hours just to touch on getting him to lead you in circles and make you dizzy. I've learned when to shut up. Marvelous education, so far it's cost 170,000 and here you earn your grants and bursaries, and so far he's spent about 18,000 of his own money, the rest was for always being around 98 percent. His prof. nominated him for a research grant last fall from the American Philosophical Society, and they sent him a cheque for 15,000 CDN out of the blue.

He grew up in Northern Canada, my ex wife went nuts and ran away with the boys, he's the oldest. They found me when he turned 13, and moved in with me. He quit high school to be a cowboy, move west and was allergic to everything. Moved back worked in a store, then a gas station. After 4 years he tells me his starting his 2nd year at University, got his Honours degree, then his Masters. He's 35 now, married and has a kid, a house and a new Hyundai van.

His brother on the other hand....quit grade 12, and..has no clue what to do, though he's had a few really good jobs, I just don't get it at all, I don't really know if he's working, and what he tells me I just try and pretend I think he's not lying.

So same start point, 1 year and a half apart. The older is quiet, introspective, and respectful. The younger is boastful, argumentative, and treats me like a moron.

You are going to see some crazy stuff. Some countries let you go to school and pay for it, and you can just keep plugging and everything they have you would consider extreme socialism.

And I think there is only 1 developed nation that believes basic health care is not a right. You might believe you have better rights, but to many of us, that's the most basic right.

If you examine Maslow's hierarchy of needs maybe you can sort out how a person can have any level of equality if a series of minor illnesses, that any of us are a slip or germ away from having, can take away your security, what you worked for, and your very existence.

John Conley
Musica est vita