A Griffon from the royal palace of Shaqir at Shabwa, the
capital city of Hadhramaut. Possibly carved at the time of the palace’s
reconstruction in the 230s AD (National Museum of Aden).
What is the worst thing in the world at the present time according to Sky News? Probably discrimination. Discrimination of one sort or another. Evola would believe that discrimination is the taxonomy of an aristocratic sensibility. One reaches for a piece of cake, one discriminates. One has an arranged marriage with another member of the Sicilian nobility, one discriminates. One reaches for a sword to do down a bounder that one wishes to beat with the flat of the blade, one discriminates between the weapon and the object of the rage, which is itself indifferent because it sees something beyond even itself. These are views, of course, that the majority of people will find cold, chilling, brutal, eagle-like, beyond their conception. Almost forms of insanity in actual fact in relation to what is today regarded as normal or moral or even human. They are partly inhuman ideas, in some ways, but they are ideas that most aristocracies and most warrior castes have had for most forms of human history.
I believe inequality is the basis of life, but also the basis of morality. I believe in inequality as a moral force. The real divide between the left and the right isn’t about people who believe in socialized medicine or even more harsh measures, divisive measures like ethnicity or abortion or whatever. The real division, philosophically, is those who believe equality, enforced or otherwise, is a moral good (broadly the general left), and those who believe, and who are often too bright to say so, that inequality is a moral good, which is what the philosophical right is about.
