This is a load of unsubstantiated nonsense. Far from being "enlightenment waffle", it is well-documented that human communities grew around cooperative relationships, the gift-economy, and mutual benefit. Just because you choose to ignore this and posit an entirely Christian-centric worldview doesn't make it any less true. It is absolutely telling that you call slavery and service "authentic relationships", the dogs can hear you whistling. Your illiberalism, inegalitrianism, and blatant authoritarianism are deeply troubling, yet you seem to have no qualms in sharing them to the world - what surefire confidence!
You're not wrong that capitalist liberal democracy elites would have us believe we're in it together, which is a lie, but you're incredibly short-sighted to not see where the problem lies. To say that hierarchies will always exist is a truism, nobody could really deny this, but to group them all together as "minority rules over the unorganised masses" displays either a severe lack of imagination or a very poor reading of history, or both. Hierarchies can, should, and have been built from the bottom up, through cooperative and representative democratic process. Ruling legitimacy should only flow from the many to those selected by them, and is by no means necessarily the other way around. Of course it is very uncommon in our current society, but it can be done. It is really rather saddening that you fail to see any other possibility than our vastly unequal situation at present. I wish you to see more.
This is a load of unsubstantiated nonsense. Far from being "enlightenment waffle", it is well-documented that human communities grew around cooperative relationships, the gift-economy, and mutual benefit. Just because you choose to ignore this and posit an entirely Christian-centric worldview doesn't make it any less true. It is absolutely telling that you call slavery and service "authentic relationships", the dogs can hear you whistling. Your illiberalism, inegalitrianism, and blatant authoritarianism are deeply troubling, yet you seem to have no qualms in sharing them to the world - what surefire confidence!
You're not wrong that capitalist liberal democracy elites would have us believe we're in it together, which is a lie, but you're incredibly short-sighted to not see where the problem lies. To say that hierarchies will always exist is a truism, nobody could really deny this, but to group them all together as "minority rules over the unorganised masses" displays either a severe lack of imagination or a very poor reading of history, or both. Hierarchies can, should, and have been built from the bottom up, through cooperative and representative democratic process. Ruling legitimacy should only flow from the many to those selected by them, and is by no means necessarily the other way around. Of course it is very uncommon in our current society, but it can be done. It is really rather saddening that you fail to see any other possibility than our vastly unequal situation at present. I wish you to see more.