Here is the Contents page for By No Means Equal to give potential readers an idea of what's inside the book. It can now be pre-ordered on Kindle as well as paperback. Kindle versions are here and here.
Contents
Introduction
Part I
Liberty and Equality
No Rational Basis for Equality
We Are All One
Quality and Equality
Don't You Want to Live in an Equal Society?
What Is the Great Modern Orthodoxy?
An Attack on Cosmic Order
What Is the Devil Most Seeking to Destroy?
The Elizabethan World Picture
The Descent of Man and the Prophecy of Hermes
Against Inequality
Body, Soul and Spirit
Part II
Secular Spirituality
God, Man and Woman
The Humanitarian God
Ideology and Freedom
A Vulgar Age
End Times
Technology Is Not Neutral
I Am God
Why I Am Not a Conservative
Tolerance and Humanism
The Lowest of the Low
The Most High
Death, the Great Equaliser?
Good and Evil, Spirit and Matter, Creator and Creation
Extreme Times
Demons
A Universe of Persons
I should add that the book looks at the idea of equality from a spiritual or metaphysical position rather than a political, ideological, social or whatever stance. But that's the only way to look at anything. The reason people make mistakes in their beliefs is because they have failed to engage properly with the level of first principles. Get those right and everything falls into place. Get them wrong and everything is wrong. Even ideas that may be right in essence become wrong if your reason for holding them is based on faulty premises.
We live at a time when the idea of equality is pushed by the establishment as a way of diminishing the individual rather than raising him up. Of course, it's the latter aspect that is presented as the driving force behind it all but the real motivation is to reduce humanity to a controllable mass dominated by a small elite served by a large bureaucracy of system enforcers who cooperate and conform for a slice of the pie. This is why such things as racism and sexism have become the deadly sins of our secular age. Anything that might resist the assault on freedom, intellectual at the moment, no doubt more later on, or stand for higher values must be attacked and shamed. Those groups best able to do this are the ones who represent a threat to the narrative and must be undermined. Things can only be equal when everything is at ground level. Equality does not mean justice. It means slavery.
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ReplyDeleteLooking back over the centuries; the extent to which the ideology of 'equality' has always been pushed mainly by the upper classes and aristocracy is very striking; and ought to engender extreme skepticism of itself.
ReplyDeleteThere's probably an element of hatred and resentment and desire to destroy involved even if it's self-hatred and resentment of one section of those classes for particular aspects of another section. Also, the usual problem of high IQ with low spiritual awareness which would include a materialised understanding of the spiritual instead of a proper spiritual understanding, that is, seeing the spiritual from a this worldly pov.
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