Liberty, Equality and Fraternity

Herr Winn:
"Everyone *should* be equal in the eyes of the state. But on the individual level there's a right to treat people unequal. If not, would you be forced to treat your boss the same you do your mother?

But I don't know that it's meant as strongly as that. The criticism holds merit, though. Freedom is the right to be different/unequal."


The French revolution promised Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Because the three values are at odds with each other, they have to be balanced. Equality is of course equality before the law. But people are all too easily manipulated in a belief that equality promises real equality in earthly society. It is then turned into a sledgehammer against Liberty. Because this abuse of Equility is so easy, just encouraging the natural envy that people feel, in my opinion Equality is a ideal that is unmaintainable in the real world, a force of destruction undermining our present order of national states.

The emerging order in the post-national society will be hierarchical. Based on inequality between members of groups. Social groups will be small and fluid. Sources of authority and order will be religion, kinship ties and charismatic leadership.

Many parts of the world are reverting to chaos since decolonisation. Western country are being overrun by immigrants and there is no political will to stop them. Together with changes in military technology states are being robbed from their ability to maintain the peace. Crime levels are climbing everywhere, but it is rarely allowed to speak about the causes. Transnational networks form alliances with crime, legitimise leaders of crime networks ("we are stealing these cars, trafficing these drugs, weapons, women for Allah or the Tribe"). The elites at the institutions that shape opinions are all Leftist. They will excuse the culprits and take away the capacity to punish them. The elites are just looking to grow the State in size and power, to land themselves jobs and increase their power. Public opinion is turning against them, but the public does not have the capacity to formulate an alternative. Plus the public is loath to give up the Freedom from responsibility that the Left grants them. So the public will go for easy solutions, appointing scapegoats (Jews, Whites, Muslims, Chinese, Mexicans, whatever, not Blacks though that is just not credible) and scream for an easy killing (bombing, nukes, glass surfaces, you get the picture).

Paths that will lead to satisfactory arrangements are very difficult and require real sacrifices now for results that will only be obtained in the long run and often by other people than those who have to do the sacrificing. Such stories do not sell very well.

Ever wondered why conspiracy theories are getting so popular? People are feeling powerless and confused. Conspiracy theories give people a handle on a situation. That is not to say there are no real conspiracies, though.

And scapegoating is a release, a ritual way to get power over a given situation. People are not and never will be rational. Truth and Reality will alway elude us. And so does Equality.