tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post4103783827494976510..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `An Evident Superiority Over the Other'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-38162208960381103962011-04-01T19:26:02.746-05:002011-04-01T19:26:02.746-05:00I work with an actual Indian Brahmin—trained from ...I work with an actual Indian Brahmin—trained from birth to view himself as inherently superior to everyone else. One would think someone in such a position would interact with common humanity bearing humor and munificence, but one would be wrong, for he spends most of his time pointing out weaknesses and errors in others—a most tragic and miserable life. <br /><br />America is not really any different from India – we too have our hierarchies created top-down based on bloodlines and secret societies, but we also have this lovely etiquette of Egalitarianism, whereby you <i>too</i> can play like Art Tatum, and even a municipal trash collector can lecture the Mayor of New York on what a lousy job he is doing. We common folk cheer that on, for being ignorantly second-guessed is a daily fact of life to us, if the Mayor can’t handle that manner of critique, maybe he shouldn’t be the Mayor.<br /><br />I disagree that these kinds of things are “bogus egalitarianism rigidly enforced.” It’s far better in my book to treat others as a part of oneself, as Jesus and other Great Masters advised (speaking of hierarchies), than to fall for the big-budget propaganda of the ruling class that humans “naturally” seek out pecking orders, like lions eat other lions' cubs.WAShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10403669322174979974noreply@blogger.com