Snobbery

Tuesday 15th February 2011
It is said that humans invented judgement (being judgemental) and not tolerating others with different values. They also say that anything we can think of actually exists somewhere in the universe ... except judgement. It’s entirely man-made and entirely destructive
If we have faith in non-judegement, dropping the destructive, becoming more constructive, that must be intrinsically satisfying to us, not just in the thinking of it but in the doing of it. By not ‘doing’ judgement we touch a higher level of acceptance of differences. If we can acquire faith enough to be that way we’ll probably make some transformatory progress, and be rid of energy-drainers, like anger and frustration. Where judgement is so distasteful is when it becomes snobbery. I originally come from a country where it’s a national pastime. They specialise in the insincerity of self-justification, which can be so useful in perpetuating speciesism (and quite a few other ‘isms’).