From the essay, "The New Gods," by E.M. Cioran, on the difference between the pagan polytheism with the rise of monotheism in the west:
"Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified and provisional. There is an underlying polytheism in liberal democracy (call it unconscious polytheism); conversely, every authoritarian regime partakes in a disguised monotheism. Curious, the effects of monotheistic logic: a pagan, once he became a Christian, tended toward intolerance..."
"Freedom is the right to difference; being plurality, it postulates the dispersion of the absolute, its resolution into a dust of truths, equally justified and provisional. There is an underlying polytheism in liberal democracy (call it unconscious polytheism); conversely, every authoritarian regime partakes in a disguised monotheism. Curious, the effects of monotheistic logic: a pagan, once he became a Christian, tended toward intolerance..."
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran
