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What does your personal path say about equality? Is it a goal? A danger? What does equality look like? Is it a religion-wide goal, or more personal?

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Obviously, this is a goal. I do not expect utopia, even though it's a work-towards - we're human. We need a goal, but we also need to recognize that we're carrying the stick the carrot's attached to. There's always more, always better.

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And equality does not mean by removing differences, but by enhancing them. That each of us can use our strengths and buttress each other's weaknesses. Uniformity would be the enemy, because uniformity means we cannot grow, cannot change. Cannot experiment and adapt. It is in our differences that we have individuality, and without individuality we cannot choose community.

My path is very much magical rather then religious, which obviously gives me something of a different take on this.But it's integral to it. I incorporate bits of situationism to quite a strong level. I'm influenced by the English Civil War Dissenters tradition (especially the Ranters and the Quakers and I'm currently trying to research the Muggletonians) and mythlogical English folk heroes like Robin Hood and General Ludd. The mythical concept of the Norman Yoke is definitely in there. As is a lot of stuff taken from other forms of media (the Illuminatus Trilogy, Paradise Lost and Don Quixote, the Phonogram and Hellblazer comics, various anarchist/libertarian socialist writers and way too many songs to mention) Plus the obvious chaos magic background and some Discordianism.So yeah, my entire path is very tied in to a specifically English tradition of Radicalism and equality is a strong part of that.But that's not really a surprise. Unlike some people, I very much choose my path, it didn't choose me. And it's self-created, so it's only natural that it's been made to fit my belief structure, not vice versa. I've identified as a libertarian socialist since I was sixteen. I only started looking into the occult in my late twenties.Yeah, that's crucial I think. Striving for a free society is important. Because even if you don't achieve it, you hopefully might still make your society just that little bit freer.The anarchist cartoonist Donald Rooum has a nice cartoon on this theme. (Linked because I can't remember how to resize images and its too big!)"Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality" - Mikhail Bakunin"On the first day of a revolution, he is a perfect treasure; on the second, he ought to be shot."- Marc Caussidière, Préfecture de Police for the provisional government in the 1848 French Revolution talking about Bakunin.(I love that juxtaposition of quotes so much).