and then our exile

it's been weeks and weeks without the CBC, it is time for the bankers to give in and get canadian radio back on air.

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i was thinking about equality vs. equity on the way home tonight, and – egalitarianism/ equality, when taken literally, will lead steadily and systematically to injustice, because they are not practical or even just principles. you will maybe ask what in the dunya i am on about, that i have smoked too much sheesha, because everyone knows these are gospel truths – but my counterpoint: ad hominim attacks are fun except untrue, because the one time i considered sheesha the whole contraption fell over. the main idea is that there is natural difference between persons, this i think is obvious: not everyone /can/ work mathematical algorithms well, although everyone has the /potential/ to do so: a just society, from a purely theoretical perspective, would not be one that reduced everyone to their least common denominator, but one which valued people's diversity and so had different accommodations for each.

"dude, there's no vay that is going to vork," i can hear a voice saying, "that vill lead us back to aristocracies and social classes and domination."

"what you are trying to say, my bumbling friend," i will reply as i puff contentedly at the sheesha, "is that democracy has abolished the aristocracy, destructed social class, and freed the dominated." then i will laugh bitterly.

given especial care ensuring mobility across the different "accommodations" the law makes (=avoiding stratification) and not going to extremes, i think this has far more potential for justice than pretty facades of democracy (which may have value in limited populations but on wider scales are simply impractical as well as oppressive), and that this idea is clear enough that even those who do not factor in God, religion, sacred law can agree with as well.

maybe i'm just regurgitating rene guenon.
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got home and parked, then stood by the car and watched the stars. stillness in the air, presentiment of frost, also tremendous beauty: sky strewn with stars, their aged light, shivering in the distance. the first night of Ramadan.