May 24, 2025

Avatars of Vishnu lithograph
by Raja Ravi Varma (विष्णु)

Saturday:
My views on the nature of equality (egalitarianism) – May 24, 2025

In line with modern confusions, the concept of equality (egalitarianism) has come to redefine human relations to the point where a significant contingent of any given population, particularly in the west, has adopted a completely skewed perception of the world: where those that are labeled as existing on the top are thought of as "stealing" from and "exploiting" those that exist on the bottom; and another contingent, though much smaller, that often adopts the view that those that exist at the bottom deserve their fate in some kind of animalistic game of survival of the "fittest".

    This state is again, due to the pernicious influence of democracy, but more to the point, to answer the question of the hen or the egg, the concept of nationhood is even more to blame, for having enabled the merchant classes to exact their vengeance on the noble classes of the past—as the view was imposed, that the population in any given territory shared a common struggle and a common goal or destiny, and that everyone was to be rendered equal, without regard for their true rank, in that greater struggle and common destiny that became expressed in the concept of the nation-state—thus leading to the dysfunctional dynamic of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, each just as obsessed with the great quantity.

    The forces behind egalitarianism are more often than not motivated by a false sense of righteousness based on the concept of fairness—that for the world to exist in proper order and in harmony, the world has to stand on a fair foundation—and this force is itself further motivated by, or driven by, the lowest and most primitive form of human existence – the degenerate force of jealousy. It is, in my view, right to assume, but not without proper inquiry, that the world should rest on a foundation that can bring forth harmony and the best qualities of the human condition, and for that to be possible, it is surely the case that fairness plays a significant part. Human beings are motivated by the righteous cause and they react with firm outrage at the sight and knowledge of injury and injustice. But modern man has confused inequality with injustice, and labeled the natural and stable order at the center of any civilization, that natures compassion for the creation has recreated time and time again, for something unjust and unfair, and as a result it has become necessary, to an ever accelerating degree, to turn society and the natural harmony within society inside out and upside down, to achieve this fundamentally unjust and unnatural goal of equality as the basis for the false idea that all humans within society shares a common destiny and a common identity.

    The concept of the nation, more than anything, is to blame for having enabled this degeneration of the moral and the natural order of society; democracy is rather a secondary consequence of the greater evil of the nation. In modern societies, there is no moral core, for it has been purged in the name of false justice, and as a result a dysfunctional dynamic that can't be sustained has been set in motion. This dysfunction will destroy the fabric of society and doom it for destruction, and the societies making up the West, have gone a long way in this journey towards the singularity before the dawn of a new age, the end of the Kali Yuga. Human beings have departed further and further from their own humanity, and instead they've chosen to label themselves animals, and approach animalistic nature in the face of nature; as such they will stand helpless as nature put the world, human conscience and condition back into proper order, in line with the compassion of nature's whims.

Reginald Drax – May 24, 2025.