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Journal: February 8, 2005
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Appearance and Reality                            Human Rights (Gender)

Back to Musings: (on my sister's birthday)      When The Blues Cloud Your Day
We humans much prefer to float in our illusions than to anchor our ideas to reality. We hope our illusions bear some relation to reality, but if not, we much prefer the illusions; e.g. race and intelligence or superiority or inferiority of women in the Christian west vrs. Muslim east. We prefer egalitarian concepts of women as full equals, even if not true, even though all most all, if not all empirical data supports ‘unpopular” view of white IQ above black and male dominance (size and strength) over female. Theory – males are larger NOT for the hunt but for the ability to control females, beat the shit out of them, rape them, if we want – I know, I know --- not at all politically correct, but maybe true. We will not even consider this explanation in our egalitarian culture, because it doesn’t fit the illusion of “all men are created equal” (we would now say, “all people” not “all men”) which we have expanded to ‘all humans have equal potential” as least as averages of groups, e.g men-women, races, education levels, income, etc.