Pride and prejudice: stupid life strategies

This is not only the name of a good work of English literature. This is the name of the disease of society, and these diseases go side by side, becoming a frequent phenomenon in our society. Often, even at the stage of acquaintance, we seem to be shielded from the person. Pride and prejudice are cultivated in society and form a worldview. However, do people become happier if they go with the flow and become increasingly big snobs?

First, let's talk about what pride is. Pride is not in vain considered the most terrible mortal sin. Why did she force a third of angels led by Lucifer to become terrible creatures? Not because they really liked themselves, love for oneself is natural and normal for the whole creation. The thing was that they refused to communicate with God. God was a priori higher in level. That is, they refused to "peer review". And they could not create themselves, degraded.

Suppose you see a person who comes into the system, for example, a working collective and loudly declares that he is a genius, the boss is "to the lantern" and the general rules are not written. How long will it last in the system? No, the system will reject it, from work sooner or later will be expelled. It will not be that he values himself, the fact is that he does not appreciate the connection between the elements of the system. This shortness is pride - pride.

Prejudice is a laziness to think, a kind of protection from information. However, if the information does not come in the proper volume, a person can not make the right decisions and degrades. So people who isolate themselves degrade. Remember the "man in the case." Pride and prejudice destroyed the life of this educated and generally positive person.

Of course, in life examples do not come across so simple. Pride hides under different masks. Books are trying to cultivate such a quality as "women's pride", it seems, it is a question of self-esteem. That is, the cost. But a person can not adequately assess himself, only another person or a society with respect to whom an estimate is made can determine the price of a person for a given person or society. If we believe that we have underestimated, we need to look for other partners or change society, this will allow us to adjust our self-esteem and feel comfortable. If a woman does not have a chance to marry again, and to be divorced from her badly, one must throw this pride away and try to save her family.

Prejudice is like a crutch, which is used to leaning on. Some installations are eaten so deeply that they are not revised and then create a kind of filter of perception. He does not give us an adequate and correct assessment of the world, we can be prone to see people without education at the same time and immoral, mentally ill - dangerous, and women housewives - close. This is just a set of popular prejudices. Only after receiving the opposite experience, a person suddenly begins to see and revise his views.

Pride and prejudice are more or less characteristic of everyone and they do not depend on social status. And among the people of the upper class of these vices, contrary to popular opinion, not so much. Particularly simple are people who have achieved much on their own. They could not afford to behave proudly, that is, unintelligent. Therefore, pride and prejudice among them are rare. But the inhabitants of a communal apartment can have special views on themselves and the world, their pride - and because they can not get along.

In English there is an interesting proverb, verbatim, pride comes before the fall. Why are all the proud people punished? Yes, these are not always life's hardships, sometimes it's despair or loneliness. The fact is that ignoring the super-system does not end badly, it is the law of not only the objective world, but society as well. Sooner or later, sad experience teaches everyone that the connections between people and systems ignore themselves more. And the former proud find long-awaited peace of mind, finally realizing that pride and prejudice are diseases of the spirit and mind. They do not let us get acquainted, learn and love.