But the contemporary world is governed by democracy, socialism, egalitarianism, socialitarianism, and so on.: sociopolitical forms that go in an opposite direction, since — as others have rightly noted — they all possess a ‘feminine’ and ‘maternal’ character. What has a masculine and ‘paternal’ character, by contrast, is the idea of a monarchical, aristocratic, and hierarchical state, few traces of which survive nowadays.
