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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (46515)	7/23/1999 8:45:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My wise grandmother taught me one shouldn't judge people by the circumstances of their birth - and that goes for things like race and ethnicity as well as for things like family wealth or poverty. Very true. But if we see people judging others, and judging them to be superior, and in effect lowering themselves by holding these individuals up as idols, inherently superior to the rest of us, is it wrong to mention that they are, in fact, ordinary people of no special accomplishment, deserving no more attention than any one of us? To a barefoot uneducated peasant in some hot, dusty third world village those of us who can sit in a soft chair in an air-conditioned room and amuse ourselves with a computer might seem to be spoiled dilettantes. Doubtless. And if the barefoot peasants who live over the hill from where I'm sitting now discovered that I had, while tossing my monitor up in the air and trying to catch it, fallen with the monitor down my throat and expired, I don't doubt that they would laugh their asses off. If someone tried to tell them that my death was a tragedy that deserved to be mourned by the nation, and that I should be flown to the finest hospital at public expense in an attempt to remove the offending object, they would laugh even harder. And I wouldn't blame them.