from "The Cancer of Average,"
The opposite of excellence is not ‘bad’, but average. This is one of the key distinctions that makes modern civilian and martial collectives so fundamentally different. Collectivist ideologies such as socialism, communism and of course, the most insidious, democracy, are all the politics of “average”. They encourage people to trade excellence and personal potential for a ‘share in a faceless whole’ in which they are merely cogs.
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