It seems I really sort of kind of bothered some members here, in recent comments about the primitives in the food and automotive sections, but trust me, it was just a wrong impression, no slights meant.
Such as when I criticized the lack of respect primitives have for their audience, in composing posts with misspelled words. This was not meant to imply that all people who misspell words have a lack of respect, or even that all people who misspell words are ignorant.
People and primitives should be judged according to what they allege themselves to be.
Primitives suppose themselves to be more eddicated, more sophysticaded, more eerudyte, than decent and civilized people, and so should be judged based on that self-assessment.
No decent and civilized person makes any such pretensions, and so when a misspelled word happens, it implies exactly.....nothing. It's just a little mistake, meaningless, nothing more, of no consequence.
When a primitive misspells a word, the primitive should be taken harshly to task for it; after all, the primitive tells us that he knows more about such things than we "lesser" decent and civilized people do.
How one presents something to his audience betrays how one really feels about his audience.
Now, if the primitives are truly more lurned and intelecktial than the average run of humanity, if a primitive respects his audience, the primitive would take special care to present a post or comment in an aesthetic and grammatically-correct manner.
But if the primitive presents a post or comment in a sloppy, careless, negligent manner--even though supposedly the primitive knows better--to his audience (i.e., the other primitives), it betrays a subconscious contempt for that audience. "Oh, they're just people for whom I don't have any respect, or whom I don't like, so it doesn't make any difference if I look like a slob, presenting things this way."
This was actually my very first Freudian discovery about the primitives on Skins's island; about three years ago.
My fellow alum Skins comes from a good background and education, and certainly isn't lacking in cerebral skills (although he doesn't use them); a top-of-the-line, top-notch, tip-top, sort of guy. A guy, more than most people, who knows how to spell words and use grammar correctly.
But oddly, if one reads the directives and edicts and pronouncements of my fellow alum to the primitives, one stumbles across occasional mispelled words or grammatical contortions.
Now, Skins knows that's not right, but it's easy to see his way of thinking, "aw, they're just crude and uncouth primitives, and I don't like them, and I wouldn't even touch one of them, and so it's okay to be sloppy in making spelling and grammatical mistakes; it's no big deal....."
(Of course, if anybody has a right to feel contemptuous towards the primitives, it's my fellow alum.)
One has to use this double standard (not criticizing people here for something, but at the same time criticizing the primitives for the same thing), because people and primitives should be judged upon what they allege themselves to be.
And if the primitives allege themselves to be smartur than we over here, well, a higher standard has to be used.
On the matter of food decadence, I raise an eyebrow not even a millimicrometer when a decent and civilized person mentions a longing, for example, for chocolate-covered caviar or orange-frosted eclairs.
As far as I'm concerned, decent and civilized people make no pretensions about being more "caring," more "concerned," more "socially conscious" than anybody else, and so if they wish to indulge in epicturean tastes of Caligulean proportions, it's no big deal, no matter, of no significance.
The primitives, on the other hand, think of themselves as morally superior, more virtuous, than we lesser decent and civilized people, and so have to be judged using a higher standard. It's the primitives' own fault this higher standard has to be applied, because they're better than us.
And so when the primitives gloat and reminesce and crave and long for fine dining, exquisite cuisine, it betrays their hypocrisy; with so many in this world undernourished or actually even starving to death, primitives shouldn't be gluttons. But they are gluttons anyway, which loudly advertises that base hypocrisy.
One has to judge people based upon their ideas of who, and what, they are.
And since the primitives have this odd idea they're better than decent and civilized people, the primitives have to be taken to task for things which are of no consequence, no significance, if lesser people do, or say, it.
