In inhierarchical societies, self worth is generally tied to accepting one's place in a hierarchy. That's literally what separates adults from children. And then you try to crush those people whom you see as savages who need correction,. Much like you, as a child, needed to be crushed in order to accept hierarchy. The reaction that you will have will depend on how logically and materially invested you are in the hierachical system. If you're at the top of a hirarchy without these benefits, you probably don't feel part of this other culture. So if you want equality about your wife or your servants, you can't have that ideas about equality.
The European Enlightenment was heavily influenced by Native American critiques of European culture.
That European intellectuals reacted against this by developing the theory of “stages of human progress” where we went from from egalitarian hunter-gatherers to pastoralists to farmers to market civilization.
That Jean-Jacques Rousseau synthesized the Native American critique and the stages of progress theory into a seemingly egalitarian critique of European social hierarchies which resigns us to accept hierarchy as the price of civilization.
That this synthesis was the birth of the “intellectual left”.
That the concept of human equality has no meaning and should be discarded [these guys *really* needed to listen to this podcast before writing this…]
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