A Squire’s Trial

must have made an unappealing face then that marked my distaste
for the word.
- Don’t look so upset. People place too much emotional baggage
on these terms of ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’. They are surely
of qualitative nature, but they do not presume any kind of attitude,
or that the inferior are bad; it is simply that they are less
than certain others. In relative comparison, you will get people
superior to some, and inferior to others. I do not hate those
who are inferior to me.
- It’s hard to disassociate that word from these implications.
- Very true, and even people like me sometimes forget that,
though not without good reason, as they are filled with fury at
the injustices that exist today. And so, I come back to you with
our topic: when you consider equality to be an interest, it gains
a no-less sinister appearance as one you normally get from the
idea of those superior having an interest in maintaining their
power. From the fascist point of view, all interests are wrong,
be it the interest of someone coveting a position of power
which he may very well not deserve, or the interest of those
who are unhappy with their lot to gain leverage or a status that
they do not deserve.
- So what you claim is that equality is not, as everyone believes
today, an essential truth, so much as it is an interest?
- Correct, although our opponents could of course claim the
same of us, but our principled position is to, once again, - accept
the truth, no matter what it is or what it means for us.
Thus, one of the most essential divides between fascism and
virtually everyone else is that we hold inequality to be an expression
of truth, and Justice calls for inequality. This is the
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