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%TOLERATE INTIMATE DEFENSE CONSUME SIMPLIFY+790729
%DEATH AFFECTION SEX NEED RESOURCES 790729
Arrogance often is manifested in refusals. The
arrogant will not listen to those regarded as inferior.
They will not tolerate or honor those who do not conform
to their expectations and demands. They will not humble
themselves to associate with simple people who lack
manipulative powers. Arrogant people will not let down
their defenses, not let themselves go and express their
true unique human selves. To do so would be to become
vulnerable to others' knowledge of their real selves.
Arrogant people seek to maintain their lofty
appearance through conspicuous consumption of natural
resources. They refuse to give up their consumptive life
style and become humble servants that give of themselves,
rather than consume the resources of mother earth. They
refuse to give up their big/fancy houses, cars, clothes,
appliances, etc. They can not stand to simplify their
life styles.
The arrogant can not acknowledge their finitude;
their need for affection, intimacy, sexual relationships,
relaxation, recreation, physical exercise and bodily
functions; and their eventual death. They cut themselves
off from those who are honest about their finitude---
because such honesty threatens their techniques for
achieving "security". The collusions of the arrogant can
not survive before the honesty of the humble and the
simple---who are not imprisoned in the collusions of the
arrogant. Thus the humble must be kept in their places
and their freedoms of communication must be restricted.
Their troubling truths must be discredited whenever they
leak out of their prisons. Simplicity must be regarded as
inferior to sophistication, arrogance as more respectable
than humility, defensiveness as more normal than
vulnerability.
Arrogance is often a defense mechanism used by people
who feel insecure because they did not experience
affective security as infants and children. By living in
threatening, punitive, rewarding, and generally
manipulative environments---they learned to cope in terms
of such realities. Openness and personal honesty are
dangerous in such environments. The arrogant were
observed to "get ahead" and "succeed". Arrogant people
thus encourage succeeding generations to be arrogant.
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