Egalitarianism: The Murderer of Culture

A great article on the topic of egalitarianism and how it's the death toll for culture. Some telling excerpts:

Contrary to what most of us have been taught, egalitarianism is a curiously modern notion. Equality before the law is a concept that stretches far back in time. Leviticus 19:15 calls for equal judgment between the rich and the poor. It does not declare the rich and the poor equal in any status -- except before God's law. In fact, the scripture relies on the given of economic inequality to make the case for legal equality.

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But egalitarianism, the concept of absolute equality among human beings, did not exist until about the sixteenth century.
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All people are not equal. A child is not special (not yours, not mine) unless the child is gifted, educated, and driven to pursue his or her dreams.
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Except your child will not have a mind of his own. Public schools -- in the name of egalitarianism, but in what amounts to a cost-cutting procedure -- are mainlining special needs students and reducing programs for gifted students. The chances are getting lower and lower that the brightest students will be able to excel at being outstanding scientists, inventors, writers, etc. No matter. There is little need to contribute to a culture that no longer exists.

God created all men and women with equal dignity as his sons and daughters. But as there is a hierarchy in all of nature, so too is there a hierarchy among people. Private property (the foundation of capitalism and the nemesis of communism) plays a key role as the driver of innovation and of a culture at large.