Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magic - Peter J. Carroll 2000

Politics V Revolutions

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

How sweet, but sadly mistaken, our old formula sounds. Unfortunately, you have to discount fraternity, once numbers exceed the maximum cohesive pack size of about a hundred and fifty persons. This leaves equality at war with liberty.

Enforcing equality to compensate for the monstrous unfairness of nature destroys liberty.

But total liberty leads to various forms of ’aristocracy’ and decay.

Yet total equality leads to oppressive forms of stateism and decay.

However, equality of opportunity leads to a vibrantly chaotic and creative meritocracy.

Commentary 18

Creeping stateism, governmental interference in everything, and the absurdity of ’parity’ and equality of reward regardless of accomplishment, threaten the wealth and creativity of every nation, and will abort any new renaissance in Europe if unchecked.

No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism.

Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism?

We note that the last few decades of increasing equality of opportunity have led to a frighteningly efficient social sorting mechanism. We now have a world famous Underclass in the UK, untainted by the slightest upward mobility, for the upwardly mobile went elsewhere.

Walk the streets with caution.