Comments on: The Only Thing That’s Curbed Inequality https://www.isegoria.net/2017/03/the-only-thing-thats-curbed-inequality/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Sun, 31 May 2026 02:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Dan Kurt https://www.isegoria.net/2017/03/the-only-thing-thats-curbed-inequality/comment-page-1/#comment-2544780 Dan Kurt Sun, 12 Mar 2017 17:04:49 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41612#comment-2544780 Why would any society strive for equality in result? The tyranny of the IQ curve tells us that only a leveling to worse than mediocrity is possible.

]]> By: Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur https://www.isegoria.net/2017/03/the-only-thing-thats-curbed-inequality/comment-page-1/#comment-2544695 Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur Sat, 11 Mar 2017 13:05:11 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=41612#comment-2544695 Societies that have stubbed out their traditional institutions, flattened subsidiarity in favor of Jacobinism and have abolished all formal distinctions of status and prerogative, suffer from chronic identity issues. In such a context, indeed only displays of mass mobilization and contrived ritual can be a substitute. During the period of the Kabinettskriege when wars were becoming increasingly private and propertarian (this was the reason why Clausewitz called war the “continuation of politics by different means,” it was a comment on the fact that much of war in the 18th century was a dynastic succession resolution mechanism), the relative peace afforded an idealism that made Rabaut Saint-Etienne naively predict the decline of war altogether.

Months later, the Bastille would be stormed and in its wake, the levee en masse would be called. Only the trial of war and its animating spirit that Ernst Juenger would later write of could provide lasting ties.

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