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 Something that is annoying of people is when they do not recognize that equality is valuable as conformal equality and not «as being free only as equals»; there has to be an exchange for all values to be worth, for there to be a cosmos; the original is more conformal than the exoteric and superficial, to create is more conformal than to consume.  Ernst Jünger, Esgrafiados: "Equality between free people is not the same as being free only as an equal".  The second equality is ungrateful and unfortunate, one that thanks the superficial radiation and not what generated it, that worships more the exhibited than the totality of references that were involved in creating that fortunate work; it is the problem of the hare that remains bulging in front of an intense spotlight, or that of voluntarily exchanging gold for colored mirrors.