Apex Egalitarianism

The first article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen state that “Men are born and remain free and equal in rights”. 

This egalitarian vision of society, in contradiction with the nobility of the Old Regime, has evolved and been redefined to become in our postmodern world an Apex Egalitarianism.

Apex egalitarianism results from a certain vision of the world brought by wokeism. A simplistic vision of the world in which the dominant relationship boils down to the oppressors – white, heterosexual, Christian men – vs. the oppressed i.e. any individuals recognized as being part of a minority (non-white, female, trans, LGBTQ…).

Apex egalitarianism ideology is the belief that humans are not determined by biology but solely by sociocultural environmental factors. The observable differences between individuals are culturally acquired. Consequently, inequalities are socially constructed and built by the dominant group.

Apex egalitarianism is non-discrimination elevated as an absolute (with the exception of “positive discrimination”). This ideology is a negation of the biological factors of what is “natural”. Behind apex egalitarianism, there is the concept of the universal man, the negation of particularisms and cultural variations. The idea that there is no difference between men and women, between Europeans, Asians, and Africans … the idea that individuals are interchangeable.

And so, as an example, if nothing differentiates biologically men and women under the guise of apex egalitarianism (no biological criteria that make you man or woman) if sexes are interchangeable and there are no innate qualities specific to them, it becomes rational for individuals to “choose” their gender.

Similarly, if nothing differentiates biological ethnicities, if the only disparity between racial groups are social, the shortcomings of some are necessarily rooted in the oppression they suffer from, e.g. racism systemic. And as individuals are interchangeable, mass immigration of the population won’t change the fabric of society. Accordingly, cosmopolitanism results from apex egalitarianism as this ideology supposes that the rooting of people in a territory is a social construct.

In summary, apex egalitarianism is the end of the traditional family and the end of the borders.

In truth, apex egalitarianism is the confusion between “equality at the start” (equality before the law as per the purpose of the first article of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen) and “equality at the end” (everyone being the same, i.e. equity). It is the confusion between equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome. The false idea that inequality necessarily indicates something unfair happened.

For instance, the difference in grades between students does not automatically underline prejudices but potentially unequal efforts put into homework and personal study time. Regardless, according to the woke dogma that gave birth to apex egalitarianism, inequalities perforce social conditions, discrimination, and oppression. Inequalities are thereby inequities.

Apex egalitarianism is a resentment against achievement, it supposes leveling down. If everything is social, the success of some over others is immoral. The rich need to be brought down to the poor level. The norms of beauty are unjust, so body positivity is promoted: all body shapes are beautiful.

In schools and universities, apex egalitarianism is the so-called democratization of culture, the abandonment of the instruction of the legitimate culture (i.e. Oxford and Cambridge universities stopped making Latin teachings compulsory in the 1960s). The suppression of the antiquity courses and the classics of Greco-Roman civilization was deemed “too white”, the annihilation of a legitimate culture perceived as imperialist and racist.

Apex egalitarianism is the impulse to destruct grandeur and beauty. The extinction of traditional Western values in the name of the respect of all cultures, in the name of multiculturalism. Western societies must continuously lose their particularisms to make space for minority groups’ values, even those in contradiction with the traditional Western culture.

For this reason, apex egalitarianism leads to cultural relativism, the absolute acceptance of any culture regardless of morals. The Western traditions, rites, laws, and values handed down over generations are not preferable to those of other cultures. The beliefs, values, and practices of individuals should be considered in relation to their own culture rather than being judged by the criteria of another.

In short, Western culture’s values and morals should not be the norm or imposed on others (even those living in Western societies). Indeed, within the woke dogma, traditional Western culture is regarded as a form of “cultural imperialism”, the demonstration of White supremacy.

With cultural relativism, each individual or, at most, the cultural subgroup determines its own values. Everyone has their own truth. The apex egalitarianism ideology takes precedence over objective facts. It is the negation of the evolution of values and moral over time.

Already in his work, Charles Maurras (1868–1952), the principal philosopher of the Action française, a monarchist political movement, had denounced the egalitarianism philosophy as a lie. He called it a betrayal of human nature, a perversion of the “natural inequality” specific to man and the essential element for structuring societies.

Maurras produced the concept of “inequality protective”, which is for instance, the dependency of a human baby who, unlike baby animals able to face nature at birth, needs the group, society, personified by the mother, to survive.

If society, via the mother, gives everything to the baby in order to subsist, there is no reciprocity in the exchange. Consequently, according to Maurras, this inequality protective is proof that the postmodern egalitarianism, apex egalitarianism, is an absurd ideology.

While thinkers like Rousseau claim that inequalities are born from societies, Maurras, on the contrary, demonstrates that societies are built because of this “natural inequality” ergo the need for “inequality protective”.

The need for humans to create association with others originated from their inequalities, their disparities. The spirit of competition inherent of natural inequality is a powerful drive that encourages work and innovation. A meritocracy is preferred to valorize the best in us.

For Maurras, depraving societies from natural inequality is detrimental for all as a social good is harvested from human differences and inequality. Leveling down in the name of egalitarianism will inevitably lead to collapse.

Apex egalitarianism is individualism, atomization, and the end of the community, the foundation of civilization.

Originally published on Dupont Lajoie - The Angry French Man on 1/21/2023.