The real question for modernity is how to retrieve authentic aristocracy, and hierarchy, and organic community without surrendering the underlying spiritual "meaning" of democracy, socialism, and individualism. The cross is the best symbol for this, combining with the vertical with the horizontal. The point is to retain both dimensions, not sacrifice one to the other. The vertical should not be flattened out into a pure horizontal plane like it has under modern democracy, and the horizontal dimension of human life should not be narrowed into a linear totem pole like it has been for most of human history, with the "capite censi" or "popular estate" occupying a single rank at the bottom, even though it's 97% of the population.
Anyone who longs for a straightforward return to ancien regime feudalism or god forbid some romantic vision of a caste system is a moron. None of the thinkers who yearned for the organic communism or natural aristocratic qualities of the Greek polis were under any illusions about the totalitarian aspects of that organicism, or the fact that it was built on the backs of slaves, dalits, Helots, etc.
The modern rule of money, what the average man calls "liberal democracy," can't be escaped by fleeing back into feudalism. The modern oligarch, controlling the modern herd with the indirect and invisible yoke of usury, will happily support simplistic reactionary philosophies because their naive nostalgia for paternal overlords can easily be used as a vehicle for cementing the domination of the financial oligarchy. Where is that new-but-old aristocracy going to come from when it's time to restore feudalism and the divine right of kings? The only two classes left are merchants (slave-owners) and indebted wage-workers (slaves). The aristocrats won't come from the latter class, so they'll come from the former, which means they will be well-polished sons of merchants, with fancy bourgeois educations to help them trick you into thinking they're aristocrats, but no natural sense of noblesse oblige.
You can't escape this hell on nostalgia alone and you can't turn back history. But if you try to sublate all the best aspects of the incomplete systems that have already been tried, like the organicism of the Greek polis, the radical individualism of modern democracy, and the genuine nobility of some aristocratic traditions, you can create something new that overcomes all of their weaknesses (totalitarianism, atomism, petty feudal oligarchy). Conversely the moneyed elites are trying to do the same thing from the other angle: what they want is a petty feudal oligarchy, governed by them, whose atomism is totalitarian. They want all the "obverse," negative sides of these historical moments to be synthesised into one final hell. We should be doing the opposite and trying to sublate all the positives to cancel those negatives.