Recently my wife and I have been doing a lot of listening to a reading around the Catholic Social Teachings. Not the modern stuff, but what was addressed by Pope Leo XIII. Held within some of the encyclicals is information that is very pertinent to our current cultural situation. One item I found interesting is that he expressly calls out that all people are not created equal. In that each individual is treated differently by God as to which gifts are bestowed upon them. This is plainly visible when we look around us and can see athletes who are more physically capable than us, artists who have greater skill than us, people who have a knack for leadership or teaching and even people that synthesize information and data faster than we might ourselves. Having different capabilities does not make us unequal in the eyes of the Lord. In fact it is often referenced that those who have greater ability will face harsher judgement and scrutiny on how they used those gifts in the end. A couple of passages of note:
There naturally exist among mankind manifold differences of the most important kind; people differ in capacity, skill, health, strength; and unequal fortune is a necessary result of unequal condition. Such inequality is far from being disadvantageous either to individuals or to the community. Social and public life can only be maintained by means of various kinds of capacity for business and the playing of many parts; and each man, as a rule, chooses the part which suits his own peculiar domestic condition.
Further on
Life on earth, however good and desirable in itself, is not the final purpose for which man is created; it is only the way and the means to that attainment of truth and that practice of goodness in which the full life of the soul consists. It is the soul which is made after the image and likeness of God; it is in the soul that the sovereignty resides in virtue whereof man is commanded to rule the creatures below him and to use all the earth and the ocean for his profit and advantage. Fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures which move upon the earth. In this respect all men are equal; there is no difference between rich and poor, master and servant, ruler and ruled, for the same is Lord over all. No man may with impunity outrage that human dignity which God Himself treats with reverence, nor stand in the way of that higher life which is the preparation for the eternal life of heaven.
I think on this noting that I am not a priest and it hasn't been even a year that I have been confirmed in the Catholic faith. So it is possible that I take away the wrong message. There is much learning for me to do. As I do learn and pull from the knowledge of the Doctors of the past, I find many things in our current system that are a direct inversion of the earlier teachings. In an eerie sort of way that is so complete, that the current civilization can not have accidentally wandered off the path.
There was some additional work put into the mod_gmi2html the past couple of days. Enough that I decided to bump up the version and call it a release. What is different between the 1.1 and the 1.2 version? I am so glad you asked:
I have replaced my entire Orbi setup on the farm with a Unifi system for wifi. It seems as though we are getting better coverage and I haven't heard any complaints from my customers (the wife and kids). The interface is much easier to use and the Orbi system I was running was 10-year-old RBK50 series access points. It was getting increasingly difficult to find hardware to expand the network and that should be a problem no longer.