Jean Jacques Rouseau and Redemption

After class today, I thought I would write about Jean Jacques Rousseau and redemption. He believes that all men must be equal. All systems that facilitate inequality should be abolished and new systems should come into place to promote equality. This is an extremely romantic ideal. The task of making every one person in the world equal is seemingly impossible. Even if it were attempted, there would have to be at least one person leading the charge and exerting power over people to make that change, unless of course everybody simultaneously had the same idea and acted it out at the same time. Even then, as mentioned in class, according to Nietzsche, people have a will to power and it has been shown in many situations where man has tried to make each other equals. People still end up taking power and ruling over their “equals”. I understand his idea and how it would be great if everybody was equal, however, I believe that there will never be a time on this earth when everyone will be equal. Knowledge in people can never be equal. If knowledge were equal in every individual, there would never be advancement, life would be all tradition and no change. Change is essential for the development and survival of the world. People are all different and with different desires. We were created that way. People should never be equal to one another, they should act out their own goals in life and simply respect others and their beliefs. The goal should not be equality, but tolerance.