"Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I recently came across the following couple of Tweets from Mike Cernovich that got me thinking about the nature of 'Right' vs 'Left' in political discourse:
I know what smarter than me looks like and don't have an issue with it, because I believe hierarchies are real, natural, and healthy.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) September 16, 2021
But I've never read something from a corporate media person and been blown away or thought, "This is scary smart."
In one of many podcast episodes between Dave Smith and Michael Malice that I listened to some time ago, a discussion emerged about the meaning of "Right" vs "Left".
In sum, Malice's view is that the Right stands for "Hierarchy" while the Left stands for "Equality". Smith was a little less charitable when it came to defining the Left and said something to the effect of "Order" vs "Chaos". Both essentially hit the nail on the head because Hierarchy = Order and Equality = Chaos. Allow me to explain further.
Equality is synonymous with Chaos because to make all people equal by power/force of law (which is what the Lefties want) is to bring about economic and legal turmoil. The ramifications are monstrous and an inversion of all things natural. This attempt to enforce equality was tried all over the world in the 20th century, and it obviously didn't work. Thomas Sowell said it best, that "If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?". From a legal standpoint, to force every person to be equal would mean introducing laws that are so malleable that any semblance of certainty and clarity would be melted away. Equality is predicated upon the application of brute force.
While the above touches upon practical and real world consequences, attempting to force equality upon all people also subverts the natural order of humanity. Conversely, Hierarchy denotes Order because Hierarchy is fundamentally embedded into our being and the world that we live in. Hierarchy is innately part of life. We have a hiearchy of needs, hierarchy of values, hierarchy of skills; we prioritize a particular task over another at any given time. Likewise - hierarchies exist among people as well. Some people are smarter than others; some people are happier than others; some people are stronger than others - and there's absolutely nothing wrong with this fact. Heck, all institutions have some sort of hierarchy built into them.
As acknowledged by Cernovich's tweets above, he considers Moldbug and some others to be much more intelligent than him. Is he being a cuck for publicly acknowledging this? No. I'm pretty sure if Moldbug and Cernovich were accosted in an alley way by a gang of thugs, Cernovich is more likely to defend himself successfully than Moldbug. What makes this world so interesting to live in is that everyone is unique and has a different set of views or skills to offer. Unfortunately, this seems to be changing as the Cathedral seeks to turn the majority of people into NPCs.
Some decry the notion of Hierarchy as ultimately accepting the idea that one class of people is innately superior over another thus perpetuating the idea of master and slave, but this is simply looking at things from an extremely myopic perspective.
John has an IQ of 142. Tom only has an IQ of 92. Despite this, Tom is way more athletic than John and represents his school in sports competitions. Will has a higher aptitude for making money due to his extroverted nature which allows him to generate more sales than Dave. On the other hand, Dave is a simple man who prioritizes spending time with his family and imparting camping skills to his kids. Dave is superior to Will in cultivating relationships and maintaining them while Will prefers to spend his time socializing with potential clients at high-end restaurants in order to close more deals. Meanwhile, John either spends most of his time poring over books in the library or playing board games with his equally nerdy friends and finds happiness in doing so while Tom is getting frisky with all the cheerleaders. Everyone here has a different priority and is superior to one another in his own different way.
Thus, as Cernovich correctly points out: "Hierarchies are real, natural and healthy", and we should embrace it. We are better than some people in certain things, and we are worse than some people in others.
This is akin to playing a racing or fighting game on your video game console. You have to select a character or car, and on the 'Select Menu' you will see that every fighter or car has a different set of attributes or stats. A fighter who ranks highly in attack/offensive attributes, or a car that ranks highly in terms of speed, will conversely lack in defensive abilities or traction.
This is what makes life and the people around you interesting doesn't it? Do we really want everyone to be equal and the same? I sure don't.
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