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Inequality is life. Equality is the great lie of our age, and our civilization's fanatical worship of it lies at the very heart of its decline. Inequality is the very basis of distinction & discernment, and ultimately, meaning itself. For what is greatness if nothing can be mediocre? What is beauty if nothing can be ugly? What is excellence if nothing can be inferior? To recognize quality is to discern that which is superior, and necessarily to discriminate according to its particular merits. Without difference, there can be no distinction; without distinction, no hierarchy of value; and without such a hierarchy, the very concept of excellence becomes meaningless. Having abandoned qualitative distinctions in favor of quantitative measures, we've come to mistake mediocrity for achievement and mere accumulation for genuine advancement. The egalitarian ideal, carried to its logical conclusion, is fundamentally hostile to the very qualities that make existence meaningful and which have historically been hallmarks of the peoples of Europe and their civilization. A world in which everything possesses equal value is a world in which nothing possesses any particular value at all.