Elites –Brahmins--take care of each other.
Whether they're Brahmins via the Hindu caste system, Harvard "Masters of the Universe" Brahmins, entertainment industry "Brahmins", Silicon Valley "Brahmins" or media "Brahmins."
Thing is - are these elites using their good luck and power to exploit and lie to the rest of us?
Get by with paying no tax or less tax in proportion to total income than those of us have modest income and file our 1040s without advantage of sophisticated tax shelters or offshore banking?
Now, folks such as Ayn Rand (much beloved by current and aspiring Masters of the Universe) .have contended that it is immoral for talented powerful individuals to feel accountable to any sort of communal good. Winner takes all.
Well, here’s something for the Brahmins to consider.
Being a Brahmin is not a free standing, essential state. One cannot be elite or perceive oneself as being on top of the heap, unless the heap exists in the first place.
Brahmin hood is possible only in relation to those who are non-Brahmins.
In India, the Brahmins need the outcastes to take care of the sewers.
-.Brahmin hood is meaningless unless there's a huge group of non-Brahmins kept outside by the security detail and bouncers.
Listen up, Brahmins. You need us. Without us non-Brahmins, your world would cease to exist.
Without non Brahmins, you’d have only your fellow Brahmins. You’d have no one to serve as your gardeners, maids, plumbers. No one to gas up your limo. No one to fly your private jet.
No non-Brahmins to take care of the Brahmin children.
You’d have no one to serve as your entourage or open your limo doors.
No non-Brahmin lawyer or PR representative to say "No comment".
You’d have no non-Brahmin to unroll the red carpet or keep the windows sparkling clean.
In your old age, who would take care of your pee bag and change your Depends?
Eliminate the non-Brahmins, and the Brahmins would have to create a whole new hierarchy of high prestige Brahmins and outcaste Brahmins to scrub the toilet and skim the swimming pool.
Without us, you'd have fun for awhile, freedom from obligation. But, gradually boredom and discontent would set in.
How do I know this with such certainty?
By watching the news.
By reading stuff written by people in the music and entertainment industries.
Former drug dealers and former sex workers who have survived and gotten out of the business with sanity and health intact can tell no shortage of stories of the number of Brahmins who beg for their services. Go look for some rock star biographies. For the drug scene, get and read Jerry Stahl's memoir,
Permanent Midnight.Time and again, "Brahmins" land in the news doing high risk, criminal activities, in non-Brahmin company. This guy has unassailable social status and no shortage of money. But...living in his Brahmin world turned boring for him.
Lebanon charges Saudi prince over record drug haul
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The late King of Saudi Arabia secretly married a Christian Palestinian woman
--forbidden by the prejudices of the king's Wahahabi sect.
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CHRISTOPHER 15 hours ago
More covert stuff from the Saudis...a drug smuggling prince, the King marrying a Christian, and from a friend in L.A., who works as a bouncer at a very trendy nightclub, they pay extra for time in the backrooms to smoke and snort cocaine.
Double standards from those peaceful folks who practice Sharia law and treat women like dirt.
Corboy: These "Brahmins" could toot cocaine in a palace in Saudi. But...not fun enough. They have to go to sin-pit EL LAY and play snow man in the back room of a trendy nightclub. Take out all the furnishings and that club space becomes smelly concrete commercial space. Its all in the mind, folks.
Look at the number of "Brahmins" who have been landed on the front page because they sought to increase their feeling of specialness via abuse
of sexuality.
*(Hanging head in shame and anger)
A former US President. Yeah. Clinton. Brilliant man. A Brahmin. Lost it all because he just had to take risks with non Brahmin women. Brahminhood was boooring.
* Brahmin Harry "Wide-Stance" Craig.
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Soooo....to all the Masters of the Universe, the Brahmins, the wannabe John Galts out there:
You need the rest of us.
And, you need us, the little people, more than we need you.
We, the citizens, want to get a fair days wage for a fair days work --adjusted for inflation. Clean water, air and food, medical care for ourselves and our children, and we want to be told the truth by those Brahmins who persuade us to vote them into office and urge us to go to war.*
You Brahmins need us for our votes.
Two, you need our company when you are bored, miserable and tired of Brahmin life.
We, the non Brahmins - most of us don't want to be Brahmins. We enjoy each other's company too much. A few of us want to be Brahmins, they are welcome to it.
All we citizens ask of Brahmins is this: tell us the truth, don't impose your sexual impulses on us without asking our permission and consent.
If you want to go to war, go yourselves. Brahmins Cheney and Rove and Rummy could've done the right thing by donning jockstraps, climbing into a cage and duking it out with Osama bin Ladin, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and Mullah Omar.
The rest of us would've been glad to watch, with no need for our kids to serve multiple tours of duty in an unwinnable war. (Meanwhile, send in the special forces to find and blow up the terrorist training camps.)
And do not play games with money that fuck up our jobs, incomes, bank accounts, pensions and don't let your investment games screw with our property or price us out of our own neighborhoods.
Tell us the truth and leave us out of your
realpolitik gaming. And when you Brahmins come visiting - mind your manners.
You need
us to assuage
your boredom.
We non Brahmins do not need you.
We don't need John Galt.
And we don't need Chris Butler, either.
We dispose of our own toenails in hygienic fashion.
However, we citizens would like to thank that Chris Butler is just
a character in the funny papers.
Unfortunately, Jagadguru Chris Butler is all too real.
And that is why we are here at Cult Education Institute's message board.
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 11/05/2015 07:46AM by corboy.