Do You Really Need 'You'?
Imagine, without any sense of obligation to conjure up vague banalities such as world peace or immortality, what your perfect life would be? A happy family, ten million dollars, a holiday home on the beach, a getaway home in Nice, a white, glistening smile, harmonious relationships with everyone in time for Christmas Dinner, a wide circle of charismatic friends, a smaller circle of the close and loyal, sunshine, ski-trips, good food, a gorgeous partner. Most people are inherently liberal-fantasizers in this way. Sure, universal healthcare would be nice, but so would buying a yacht. We cycle through each day stimulating our neurons into powerhouses for capitalist perpetuation, both personally and societally. Make money, feel good; buy something to eat, worth the cash; donate to charity, what a good guy I am. Like it or not, we all experience and fuel a liberal society. But what exactly makes it so? The answer is blatant, but unappreciated: a comparative existence, or in other words, hierarchy.