The opposite is true: egalitarianism does not tolerate aristocratic and monarchical tendencies, not only in the political structures of the state (which might be understandable), but in any other area of public life. And yet liberal democracy, being the single most homogenizing force in the modern world, creates the illusion that it alone stands for social differentiation. A liberal-democratic man surrenders to the illusion: he believes—quite wrongly—that he has managed to make his inner self more and more intrinsically diversified and therefore while imprinting his ideas on the world around
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