We all lie a lot much of the time. One of the most pernicious and influential lies that we tell ourselves and our neighbors is that we are better than others. If we are smarter, more talented, better credentialed, better educated, richer, better looking, or a popular winner in the eyes of an adoring public, we still do not quite believe we are so worthy unless there are individuals or classes of individuals to look down upon.
Thus we gain a slight upper position in wealth, social standing or at work, and we immediately swell up and declare, believe and act as if we are better than those around us, less fortunate, or less well-positioned in the community.
To sneer at the public as inferio riffraff or contemptible ragtag and bobtail is to damage the target and to harm ourselves in the process,
One cannot individuate and be a moral, happy person while living and enforcing tyranny over others as a slaveholder.
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