Where do you stand on the social ladder? Who is above you, who is below you, and why? What characteristics gives someone status, and invisible podium on which to stand? Strength, wit, or charm... perhaps a combination?
If you look at the extremes... it's easier to tell. A drug addict leashed to a cocaine addiction traveling down the road of destitute poverty is obviously lower in social status than say... Mark Zuckerburg. But, when you get closer to the lines, things become blurred. Where does an NFL tightend line up to a NASA engineer? I don't think you can really compare the two. The tightend has qualities that the engineer couldn't dream to posses in his lifetime and visa versa.
Things get even more complicated when you start talking about groups like say... a class room.
These are all people here for the same thing, to study and learn. We all, however, come with different experiences and mindsets. Some of us are alpha personalities, some of us are beta's, and others are a mix. Some of us have higher IQs than others. Some of us do sports others do video games. Some are big others are little.
So who gets the big voice? And who remains silent? Is anyone outcast and is that right? There's never an official announcement of who deserves all respect and who should be ignored. These are the dynamics of social creatures. We mix a bunch of variables from physical strength to moral sets to determine where we stand. Like the wolfs, like the chimps, we too have stratified our system. Perhaps all were NOT meant to be equal...
No one, absolutely no one, is above the Great Waffle.
I would have to say that you're right. You really cant compare two different types of people. They each have a different quality that is superior to the other and therefore they are equally intelligent, just in different ways with different situations.
ReplyDeleteI think its all in the eye of the beholder. You can't really determine your own worth, but people around you can judge you and put you on that ladder. Everyone judges others to determine where they stand and how to be friends or use that person. In the business world you are judged by your work if you fail enough you become worthless to the company and you are let go if you succeed you become of more worth to the company and is given rewards in raises or promoted.
ReplyDeleteVery true and well said. The comparisons given do a good job of illustrating the point you were trying to make. And to answer the questions that start the final paragraph: the big voice goes to the person that creates it, the silent one is the one to watch out for, and the word outcast is subjective as one may be an outcast from one group yet the leader of another.
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