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%RESPECTED ARROGANCE ACCEPT AFFIRM EXCHANGE+790726
%TRADE ELITE HONOR KING IGNORE ALOOF DISDAIN 790726
There are some forms of arrogance which become
respected according to tradition. Such respect encourages
the arrogance and grants it stature. Those who are
arrogant are affirmed in their arrogance. Their arrogance
becomes a sign of their elevated status, their
superiority, their authority. A King or Queen was
expected to be rather disdainful of commoners. A
president who associates too much with common people and
adopts their manners is not respected. A messiah that
eats at table with common people is criticized for
improprieties. A certain amount of arrogance is expected
of those of high position, and if they are not
sufficiently arrogant they are not respected.
Arrogance is a means to maintaining a pecking order.
People, just like birds, feel more comfortable with a well
defined pecking order than with an ambiguous pecking
order. Members of a culture thus tend to promote means to
keep pecking orders will defined. Among such means is
arrogance enjoyed (?) by the elite, and encouraged by the
commoners. Through arrogance the distinctions between the
top and the bottom of a pecking order is maintained. The
King and Queen rule in splendid isolation from the
commoners. The full professor lectures at a splendid
distance above the physical and intellectual level of the
students---and feels no responsibility to listen to the
uninformed opinions and feelings of the students. What
King or Queen would stoop to take seriously the opinions
and feelings of the lowest commoners? The pecking order
must be maintained, and an appropriate amount of arrogance
is necessary to maintain student respect towards
professors. Without respect the students will not take
the professors' directions seriously, and will tend to
trust their own uninformed opinions and non-logical
feelings---rather than the reasoned judgment of their
superiors. The good students recognize these facts of
life, and encourage the good professors to maintain their
arrogance and distance. The good professors reward their
good students for their mature judgment and good sense.
Respected arrogance is mutually advantageous to both
the arrogant and those commoners who aspire to qualify for
positions of arrogance.
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