This is bound to be hierarchical and aristocratic; bound to posit clearly differentiated hierarchies of values and assert the principle of authority; bound to oppose the world of quantity, the masses, democracy, and the rule of the economy; bound to emphasise what is truly worthy of effort and to completely subordinate its own particular interests to the attainment of anagogical virtue, that virtue which draws upwards (‘upwards’ as the counterpart to ‘from above’) — precisely by being anchored ‘above’, to that reality of a higher order.
