Where the Shoe Fits - WHY THELEMA ISN'T FASCISM*

[tausirhasirim]

(* Only it is. When I wrote this I was in my late, doubt-plagued period in the corporate OTO.  It professed gradual liberation through initiation - see Crowley quote below - but, in practice, was so hierarchical and so dedicated to blood oaths to living people that it was, and is, de facto fascism.  Each initiation is only a lure to the next, and,

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[31seel]

Intellectual fascism -- in accordance with the above definition -- is the arbitrary belief that individuals possessing certain traits (such as those who are intelligent, cultured, artistic, creative, or achieving) are intrinsically superior to individuals possessing certain other traits (such as those who are stupid, uncultured, unartistic, uncreative, or unachieving).

So, acknowledging the obvious is considered "arbitrary" and a basis for "intellectual fascism"?. The man who runs faster is a better runner than the one who runs slower. The intelligent are better than the unintelligent. How is this fascistic?