I don't believe that human beings are autonomous individuals.
Our actions have consequences. We have ancestors and descendants and exist within a certain context shaped by those who came before us. We have a duty as individuals and as a society to take account for the big picture and make wise decisions that are good for the totality, not the individual. Individualism is philosophically no different than Satanism.
I don't believe in elections and democracy.
Democracy favors screwing over the future to buy votes in the present. All our economic growth, all our job creation over the last 50 years is based off a taxpayer sham that our country will never recover from. We're about to pay for every "good economy" past presidents gave us at the expense of our future. Great.
I don't believe in equality.
No two men have ever been created equal. Meritocracy unfortunately breeds rulers who are far more jealous of their power than any aristocrat of the past. They know what it takes to gain power, and they truly resent those at the bottom.
I don't believe in the primacy of markets or the economy.
This one will probably be controversial. Modern capitalism has morphed into something truly despicable. It has usurped every facet of life. Dating is now a market. Everything's a damn market. And yet there are so few jobs that offer dignified labor that can sustain a life worth living. Capitalism has rendered everything transactional. It sucked every bit of genuine love out of this world and made life a miserable chore. People are slaves and prostitutes under this system.
Leftism is dead and unviable. Communism was a horrible experiment but our own experiment is about to go out just as shamefully. There is no return to the old ways. We need to seek what works and what has truly worked and cast aside everything else, regardless of how sentimentally attacked to it we may be. We live in a world where 60% of teens are suicidal and everyone's mentally ill. Classical liberalism knocked down the first domino and doomed us all.
Technically speaking every Human society is at its core. Irregardless of the window dressings. Is fundamentally either an aristocracy or an oligarchy. Those with resources, normally financial but not always. Will always eventually rise to the top. And those same resources usually mean they have the better odds of producing directly, or indirectly, the upcoming Leaders.
Main difference between the Aristocrats of the past and those we call CEOs, Moguls, Bankers, or some other term. The Nobility was obligated to at least pretend to care. As their wealth was tied to their Country and land. So they had a vested interest in the long term success of their country. And not some loose idea of international “Free Market”
The current American and to a lesser extent Western Corporate World. Which more or less is the Western economy. Is in large part where the U.S and much of the West sources it’s leaders. Whether they’re out in front leading or the one’s pulling strings in the back. And One of the markers indicative for the wild financial success the Top earners enjoy. Is Sociopathic, narcissistic or psychopathic traits.
It’s not impossible to be a moral person and rise to such highly successful heights. You’ll just have a harder time than the lunatics who wouldn’t mind dumping toxic waste in a river and poisoning a few thousand downstream. Or deliberately lacing their products with toxic but addictive chemicals to ensure repeat customers just to squeeze those extra percentage points out on an earnings report.
Where as before. The West could source leaders from 1 of 3 places. The named and titled nobility. The Christian Church, and the Merchant Caste.
We’re largely left with the Merchants. And then we promptly built a system that incentivizes and rewards the absolute worst traits you could possibly have in leaders. Which are the leg of the Triumvirate that was never particularly well liked by anyone to start with
Somewhat amusingly. Western Society doesn’t seem to have quite gotten over the loss of the Nobility and the Christian Churches fall from prominence.
Stories, tales, and legends of Noble Kings, Chivalrous Knights, and the Wise Council of Courtly Advisors often religious figures remain enduringly popular. Even if they wax and wane somewhat with passing ages. The most famous modern example being the Lord of the Rings.
But the stories of King Arthur, Beowulf, and others remain stubbornly popular. Even if perhaps a tad obscure in modern day.