I have an idea that I don’t like. It is an idea I feel downright guilty for even having. I have alternately attempted to ignore, suppress and disprove it with limited success. I am usually able to quash it under a heap of other, nobler, cognitive concerns, but like the pernicious weed that it is, it finds a way to creep into the most innocuous of thoughts. And, despite my better judgment, I find myself dwelling on it yet again. So I am going to have to resort to confession, that age-old sacrament that can at first feel as burdensome as the transgression to be confessed, in the hope that it will grant me some respite from my torment. The idea is this: socio-political egalitarianism, at least in its purest form: the unchallengeable supremacy of equal individual human dignity (not necessarily equal situation), is not a stable equilibrium. And, in the long run, it will find itself overrun by more stable socio-political organizations.
