Why is Equality So Dangerous?

Why is the idea if equality so dangerous? For two core reasons, 1) it is an inherently anarchic idea, designed to destroy all hierarchical institutions, including the church and the family, 2) it stems directly from the original lie of the devil. As I note in something else I am writing,

“I think Chaucer answered that for us above, it is a strategy for undermining God’s Church and his order;

“but in as much as the estate of Holy Church might not have come into being, nor the common advantage kept, nor any peace and rest established on earth, unless God had ordained that some men should have higher rank and some lower: therefore was sovereignty ordained to guard and maintain and defend its underlings or its subjects within reason and so far as lies in its power, and not to destroy or to confound them.”[1]

If you mess with the natural hierarchy ordained by God, you mess with the Church, the family, and the national structures which protect these life-giving institutions. Anarchy is the end game, because Locke, Hobbes and the medieval jurists were right, if everyone is levelled then anarchy will ensue, not because everyone is equal, but because the natural result of levelling is disorder. Egalitarianism is disorder dressed up as a gift and we are experiencing the repercussions of it every day in the West as our society becomes further and further decivilized.

The reason we are obsessed with equality is that humanity has an enemy, a real, spiritual and wicked enemy, that worked out long ago, if you want to destroy humanity, you barely have to lift a finger. All you have to do is convince everyone that they are owed more, and they have every right to take it, “4 But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil” (Genesis 3:4-5). It is the original temptation, and it still wreaks havoc today. We are obsessed with equality, because our society believes the devils lie that the utopian greatness it offers us is possible. Unless we oppose this very clever deception, equalitarianism will continue to degrade our society.”

Society was designed to function in hierarchy. This hierarchy gives the world structure, meaning, stability, and also distinction. Equality is designed to break all of this, as Nicholas Berdyaev notes,

“From inequality was born also the world, the cosmos. From inequality was also born man. An absolute equality would have left being in an unrevealed condition, in undistinctness, i.e. non-being. The demand for absolute equality is the demand for a return back to the initial chaotic and dark condition, all level and undifferentiated, which too is a demand for non-being. The revolutionary demand for a return back to equality in non-being is begotten of the lack of desire to bear up under sacrifices and sufferings, through which leads the path to an higher life. This is indeed a very terrible reaction, a denial of the meaning of all the whole creative world process. The pathos of revolution -- is a reactionary pathos. The coercive demand for equality, issuing forth from the bottoms of the chaotic darkness, is an attempt at the destruction of the cosmic hierarchical structure, formed by the creative birth of light in the darkness, an attempt at destruction also of the human person itself, as an hierarchical step, as having been born of inequality. Thus transpires the encroachment upon the royal place of man in the cosmic structure. And it is because this place has been acquired by a terrible inequality and process of separation. The demand for equality can be expanded also downwards, towards the non-human rungs of cosmic life. In the levelling rush there is always thrust upwards not the human, the essentially already aristocratic principles, but rather the lower subhuman principles in man himself, elementary elements, the elementary spirits of nature. In all the communistic mass movements there is always sensed something non-human, some lower elements of nature rearing their head, obstructive to the revealing of the human image in the masses themselves. Differentiating a light needs ultimately to be brought into the darkness of your confusions. The pathos for equality is a jealous envy towards a being alien to one, the incapacity to advance one's own particular being without glancing at one's neighbour. Inequality however permits of affirming the being Of everyone, independent of the other. Ye levellers unto non-being, ye love to make use of even Christianity for your aims, ye are not loathe even to resort to the Gospel, in which ye do not believe…”[2]

The pursuit of equality is essentially a pursuit to go back to the chaotic nothingness of inexistence. Because only in that chaotic nothingness can true equality ever exist. Inequality is defined by distinction. Creation is defined by distinction, therefore inequality is an intrinsic part of creation and equality is an intrinsic part of uncreation, or chaos and destruction. The pursuit of absolute equality is the pursuit of destruction. It can lead no other way. The Bible, Chaucer and Berdyaev agree, equality is dangerous.

When a building is levelled, it is far more equal than when it stands, but it is no longer a building, but rubble. This is what the equalitarians are doing to our society.

List of References

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[1] Chaucer, Geoffrey .. The Canterbury Tales: FREE Hamlet By William Shakespeare (JKL Classics - Active TOC, Active Footnotes ,Illustrated) (p. 516). JKL Classics. Kindle Edition.

[2] Berdyaev, Nicholas, The Philosophy of Inequality, P.50.