In an interview with @jmrphy, @meta_nomad echoed @Outsideness, saying
"I have absolutely zero interest in the emancipation of human groups or individuals"

This is a powerful statement, it deserves expansion

what is meant by emancipation? On the left it is imagined as an escape from hierarchy. It’s the idea that no one is better than you. That it’s morally wrong to be above someone else

If no one is above anyone else, then no one is above you, specifically. There is some appeal to this, a certain gratification of pride.

Emancipation, in leftist morality, is identical to equality. A commitment to a world without hierarchy is a commitment to equality.

Most people do not think critically about what equality is, or what it must give up to achieve this miracle of “no one standing above me”. It comes with a terrible price

The claim that everyone _is_ equal does not stand up to even a moment of scrutiny. Some are rich and some are poor. Some are moral and some are evil. Etc. Equality is not DEscriptive, therefore it must be PREscriptive.

And if equality is a moral prescription, then anything that increases inequality MUST be morally wrong.

The following may seem like a ridiculous extrapolation but if equality is to be a value, it must be a terminal value. If it is not a terminal value, then it will fail entirely, for hierarchy will creep in, and if you give it an inch it will take a mile

In order to be a good terminal value, it must survive being taken to its logical extreme. The logical extreme of equality is total equality.
No one of high status. No one of good moral standing. No one who is a great artist or poet

To equality, all difference must be nauseating, a great festering wound. All diversity must be sacrificed to equality. Any difference is a foothold for superiority which is a foothold for hierarchy.

To equality, there can be no beauty. For the existence of beauty demands the existence of ugliness, and no quality can exist except in the face of a contrast.

Under equality, it’s wrong to get stronger. It’s wrong to save money, wrong to read challenging books, wrong to become famous, especially for a clever or brave deed. To do so is to oppress someone with your superiority

From this we can see why equality must glorify the weak, lest strength become a virtue. It must adore the ugly; hence modern art and poetry. It must trust all betrayers. Trust requires judgement and judgement creates inequality.

Emancipation from the hierarchies of man? It is not possible because nature is red in tooth and claw, and the only emancipation is ultimate emancipation, freedom from all material need, from all existential risk. Smart leftists ask this question

And the smarter leftist thinks: we must put an end to material scarcity, perhaps through some kind of automated communism... perhaps by accelerating the technocapital singularity. But then what?

Why, then no one will have to work! We will all be free to do whatever we want. And what will we want? What do YOU want? If you do something creative or clever you will subvert equality once again.

The only option to preserve equality is unadulterated hedonism and all entertainment produced by machine, so no human can take credit. Even most smart leftists have not realized that machine over man is also inequality.

Or perhaps equality is to be achieved, and then instantly transcended? It is once again ok to be unequal, now that we have tasted it? Or shall we refashion humanity to be transcendently equal through future magic?

Shall we make all people the same, a singlular being stamped across the face of the earth, as many as we can fit? Or only a single instance? Perhaps we will all have little harps and float on clouds.

If you have ever wanted to excel at something, if you have ever felt a desire to be a greater version of yourself, you have felt a right wing impulse.

The heart of rightist thought is the desire to soar. The leftist thinks he rises but his goal is inexorably a type of fall. There can be no redemption of equality, it is an anchor around our necks, a nemesis to flight

Self improvement is only possible on the right. The leftists meanwhile dispute the concept of wellness as smacking of oppression

We want to create hierarchy because it tells us which way is up, a thing that the leftist is forbidden to know, is obligated to conceal