End Of Equality by Mickey Kaus, Danek S. Kaus
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(Paperback - 2nd Edition)
- Pub. Date: March 1995
- 320pp
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- ISBN-13: 9780465098293
- ISBN: 0465098290
- Edition Number: 2
- Edition Description: 2nd Edition
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This inspiring book shows that the great unfinished business of American liberalism is not to equalize money but to limit the spheres in which money matters—to put money in its place.
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Mickey Kaus is a senior editor at The New Republic. Formerly politics editor of Harper’s and an editor at The Washington Monthly, he covered the 1988 presidential election for Newsweek. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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October 24, 2000: Great, every book deserves at least 3 stars if it helps create an objective viewpoint... Anyways, nice book if used in a fantasy world of perfect people; but in truth you'll always have for instance - criminals and criminals are NOT equal... when criminals get into office, thats where equality starts to diminish and create oppression. Everyone is best left alone. Free to choose as you will so long as your will doesnt violate the rights of others. No-one (human anyway) is 'equal' now and NEVER will be. Certain amounts of selfishness creates incentive and can and does lead to great rewards that eventually helps others along the way. Oxymoronic a bit, but very very true (some people are less helpful than others, but, so what?) This book is about equality when in fact it should be more about insects habitat as from the perspective told by an ant. I think even the movie Antz and bugs life told the same fable - only in reverse (about individualism). Book reminds me of metaphors from the renowned book '1984' By George Orwell If you read this book, you may understand the motives of the above author in relation to a term in 1984's book called 'newspeak' - about reducing language to control the limitations of thinking in order to create a more 'equal' society... Interesting.
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