Elitism or Equality?

Australian society is run primarily in the interests of the economy. Now, corresponding to any period in which a certain social orientation reigns we may discover certain regimes of truth, or particular ideologies, which reinforce the social orientation.

Those in power must universalise their worldview so that the particular social orientation persist: a more enduring and thus 'successful' worldview will convince individuals in a society that they act in their own interests when in fact they are really just means to an end beyond themselves.



So, what does the social orientation entail and why? Well when we compare these modern times with the stock of literary, architectural and other historical indicators of past European ages, we may see that the current 'politically correct' worldview which pervades much of the globe (and not just Australia) is relatively individualistic, 'humanistic', and materialistic in nature.

Its aims are effectively to engineer and reinforce a society which, as if it were a shopping centre, possesses the minimum of entry standards and excludes no one because its aims go no 'higher' than economic ends which are benefited most by ensuring that the largest possible quantity of individuals are both buying and selling now and into the immediate future.

Along these lines the apparent equality between all homo-sapiens is parroted and the 'universal rights of man' are constantly evoked as if they were something that actually existed somewhere in the universe to be discovered as fact.

A safe, comfortable and rather mundane 'consumer' existence is celebrated so that we pander to nearly all of our desires which, only fittingly, can be satisfied by products. It's also vital that we don't forget to belt up and subsequently die on the way to work or to the shops, decreasing the economic biomass of the nation and Gross Domestic Product with it.

The endless invasion of marketing in our lives reinforces the narrow-minded view that buying a particular brand or type of car, for instance, over another makes one somehow different and special. Indeed, it is a pity that the genuine inequality between human beings is trivialised in marketing slogans like "Everyone's journey's different: that's why we've designed different models for different people" and is realised only as far as the shallow plane of choice between products. (Openly display difference in some sort of significant ideological way, for example by questioning democracy, consumer society and 'equality between humans', and then see how long it takes before you are avoided; quite hypocritical in a society that in theory preaches that all people are equal).

We must face reality: We live in a society which, like all of them before ours, possesses an agenda. Capitalism, populism, humanism (equality) are not 'disinterested' ideologies. Further, many of us as citizens have internalised these ideologies, meaning enough of us constantly reinforce them in our own thoughts and actions and keep the status quo going. But is there a problem with all this?

Well look at the aforementioned emphasis we place on equality. Julius Evola suggests in his book 'Men Among the Ruins' that the aspects under which human beings are all equal represent the 'minus' or the lowest aspects of humanity rather than the 'plus' or most interesting aspects. He asserts that to give primacy to the lower aspects of humanity is like regarding the bronze in many statues as the prime feature of the statue rather than regarding each as the expression of a distinct idea to which the bronze merely supplies the mundane working matter.

It would seem that only a community which aims exclusively to maximise the value of goods and services supplied and demanded by engineering a bumper crop of human consumers would regard the mere fact of belonging to the biological species 'homo-sapiens' as a fitting standard to evaluate its individuals against. I might be wrong but I suspect that a chimp could be taught to work in many of the jobs homo-sapiens are currently happy with and to engage in the purchasing of products.



But perhaps this hints at the truth; that the powers that be (exploiting the stock of values we currently hold) posses a vested interest in the slow but sure levelling down of the human being from the lofty heights it has proven it can reach - right back down to the level of working and consuming apes.

By David.