The thing is, it's not me who is, in general, really at fault EXCEPT I do not brag about all the certificates I have won all through my life and display them on my wall like people who DO get respect. I just do little, unnoticeable things instead, like try to pay attention to what they say and understand their point of view. I let the superficial things slide, let my hair get a little long, don't wear a suit and tie, don't refuse to get my hands dirty to help someone, try not to act like I'm better and smarter than they are, don't criticize unless I can show them a better way (and don't force it on them when they are not interested), and try to sound and act like somebody who actually cares about other people instead of feeling like I have to compete with them. I generally feel that other people are MORE capable than they think, not less.

Most people seem to look down on me because of my life philosophy. They have gotten theirs second hand from the Christian religion, and judge everybody else according to its slavery-inducing concepts. In our country, people who are not slaves are looked down on by the slaves! Slaves will always regard a free-thinking man with suspicion and contempt. You can see this in other ways: the Muslims are even more enslaved to their religion than the Christians and Jews, and feel like Christians and Jews are to be eradicated. Catholics eradicated hundreds of thousands of people before their reign of terror ended, which may have resulted in the current Muslim contempt. Protestants and Muslims will do the same before their era ends, and we may have to go through a millennium of either a Protestant or Muslim version of the Catholic horror many  years before some other hideous concept comes along to replace them. People forget history too willingly, are not wise about looking toward the future, and too willingly make a joke when someone expresses their concern. That is the reason for the question that introduces this rant.

When someone does or says things that purposefully ignorant people will make jokes about, they do of course look down on him as a result and show that by their actions, friends or not. They made a joke of his heartfelt, hard-earned viewpoint, and in doing so have put him down to a level beneath themselves in their own minds. People, being lazy, don't want to acknowledge someone may have studied hard to learn a whole hell of a lot of things they are too scared to know about, and too lazy to care about. That's why my books don't sell: People would rather make a joke of them than to know what's in them, because what's in them may take a little strain to learn how to understand. People will not argue with something on its own terms when they don't know what its terms are, and don't want to know. They will use lies and jokes to put it down, or anything else they can to avoid the struggle of updating their knowledge. They get so far away from reality that their religion is all they have left, and they don't really understand it!

)))))))))hugs((((((((( from the Mad Poet, Lloyd