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FAIR COMMENT
i went somewhere that specialises in collective truths and they were thinking about power and control. they had some children who had been thinking about power and control as well. so i kinda joined in and started thinking about power and control.
i listened to the children and i thought about how children relate to power and i thought that they often verbalise their interface with the control they experience as being "fair" or, more commonly, "not fair".
i kinda thought that as we get older we have a more sophisticated relationship with power. we "understand" its need and we rationalise control. in all things, from making wars to taking taxes.
you know what? i think children have got it about right. we do all this sophisticated apologism for the power and control exercised on us, around us and on and over others and we find a bunch of metrics that all too often conclude that we should shrug our shoulders because that's the way things are. what we don't do is ask whether something is fair.
maybe we should trust our own childhoods and our own children and fairness should be the first measure we apply.
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