Guénon held that elites, unlike masses, cannot hide behind moralist hypocrisy

Evidence

Guénon, East and West, 70: “That is what we call ‘moralist’ hypocrisy: it is unconscious in the masses of the people, who never fail to accept with docility whatever ideas are inculcated, but it ought not to be equally so with everyone, and we cannot admit that statesmen, in particular, are dupes of the phraseology which they use.” — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 834

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with the mass-elite epistemic split common to traditionalist critiques of modernity, e.g. in the same lineage as anti-democratic Western traditionalists.