Message from @The Enlightened Shepherd
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Natural born elites understand "what matters"
Thats what makes them eites
They have an understanding of the world that goes beyond the whims and sudden outbursts of popular anxiety
right
An elite that has such an udnerstanding would never for example give such an importance and priority to economy that it enjoys today
Fascists in many respects have had a healthy outlook
@༺པརབྱར།བསངཇ༻ That's the problem, no? The Fascists and Nat'l Socialists did try to evaluate the problem and come up with a catalog of "what matters." One can argue with their conclusions, but they did not make the economy the most important thing.
what is the most important thing
I was arguing with a young alt-right friend who ran for office here in MN. He just couldn't understand why you shouldn't exploit the workers/masses.
He's not there yet. He has little empathy yet, is totally into Nietzche, but is really lacking something. A bit sociopathic. Unmoored.
I don't claim to know.
@diversity_is_racism has some good ideas. 😉
what matters
what is important
?
The elites understand that there is an order in nature that simply "is"
Not should be
The conviction that hierarchy of things must exist
That superior things have to be really superior, and inferior really inferior
And that it is their natural order
So what matters is hierarchy
?
Economy, as merely a form of exchange, therefore is absolutely subjected to *qualitative* relationis, which are personal
Economy as a quantitative form of exhange, therefore cannot supress and replace a qualitative organization, which is abstractly and theoretically, the state itself
Aristocratic state is nothing else but it's elite and of course, the religion
Aristocratic state is therefore this *quality* itself
What makes something superior to something else rather than, say, different
"we the people" is just a bushwacking drivel
Quite frankly spoken, the superior in terms of these castes, is essentially a personal quality
valor, bravery, intelligence, etc
In most aristocratic societies, the elites were extremely suspicio of presence of such qualities among low castes
Because statistically, they were usually right
which is why the idea of aristocracy just drives the current masses mad with rage.
Not necessarily
I may have made too large a claim. Many are driven mad, not all.
Consider Roman Republic. It's borders were essentially the city of Rome. It was easy for a slave to escape to his freedom
But few chose to do so
People aren't at war all the time
Because the relative safety and comfort of the life of servitued in a house of a Roman noble man was in many ways his comfort zone
It seems to be a natural virtue in some to admire and want to emulate superiors, rather than trash them. This virtue has been undermined today, but is not absent totally.