The Politicization of Everything: Ryszard Legutko [CLIP]

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"This system initially should have retained and preserved a lot of non-political areas. Just let people do what they want. There are certain areas of life that should be protected against the intrusion, the political interference. But that's not the case...Under the communists everything had to be communist. Not just family, but communist family. Not morality, but communist morality. Not art, but communist art, and so on and so on. So now, everything has to be liberal- democratic, or liberal, or democratic, or liberal-democratic, whereas there are a lot of institutions or communities or human activities that cannot be either liberal or democratic. Art is not democratic, right? Family is not a democratic institution. It's a hierarchic institution. So, trying to democratize family is, in fact, a step towards the destruction of the family. Schools & universities are inherently hierarchic or, I will use this word which is a hateful word nowadays: 'aristocratic' in the original etymological sense, right? 'Aristos' in Greek means "the best"... So, these are aristocratic Institutions, hereditary. There are the teachers and there are pupils, disciples. There are the masters and those who try to follow the masters. All these things are necessary for the well-functioning of a society." - Ryszard Legutko