DBTrek wrote: ↑Thu May 28, 2020 2:34 pm
That's where you're confused. Egalitarianism isn't opposition to elitism, it's opposition to individuality. We're a "
know your place" culture because Americans have to fight for our place in the hierarchy, and therefore, if you aren't at our level - best get to steppin' back to your place. Places gotta be earned. We don't hand them out like Zwarte Piet candy. That's why the lowest rung of the American ladder is an SJW haven of proto-Danes constantly trying to drag everyone down to their shitty level, Denmark style.
It's an American thing that's hard to get if you weren't raised in it.
But I bet the Danes of 1000AD would get it.
That may be your postmodernist, personalized definition of egalitarianism. In the world outside your safe space bubble, what you actually described in your post was the definition of
collectivism. Not egalitarianism. From Merriam-Webster:
1: a belief in human equality especially with respect to social, political, and economic affairs
2: a social philosophy advocating the removal of inequalities among people
There's nothing at all anti-individualist about that. In fact, it is
more respectful of individualism because it assumes that all citizens should be
equal before the law and have
equal opportunities to advance their social, political and economic standing and influence in society.
And you just demonstrate how much of an obedient peasant you are. You have one of the Western world's lowest social mobility.
You bet the Danes of 1000 AD would get it. The Danes of 1000AD who weren't jarls and kings were all beta male cucks, sucking their master's dick, saying Yes, master, please master, can I have some more, master? And those who
were jarls and kings didn't gain their tiles by "earning" it from the ground up, from peasant to jarl. No wonder someone like you'd pine for a weak ass society such as that. Danes of 1000 AD were a people of submissive bitches. Same as practially everyone else of that time. Could they bash someone's skull in? Sure.
Didn't make them any less submissive, though, any less pathetic by any modern free man's standard who believes the land he lives on, belong to him and not... his "betters". But I guess grasping what freedom is all about is hard to understand when you've been raised to be be a brown-nosing toady:
Fame is not flattery. Respect is not agreement.