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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #5  2026-05-08  
You are pointing to an “exception” idea: you feel
that concepts like pride and prejudice don’t really apply to people
who are genuinely above mediocrity in ability, status, or
consciousness. [psychologytoday][1][https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pathways-experience/201609/pride-and-prejudice)

### How “pride” and “prejudice” actually work  
- Historically, **pride** in this context means “thinking you are
better than others and too good to mix with them,” not just healthy
self-respect. [sparknotes][2][https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/pride/central-idea-essay/who-is-prideful-and-who-is-prejudiced/)
- **Prejudice** means forming fixed judgments about others based on
assumptions (class, reputation, group, etc.), rather than seeing who
they really are. [en.wikipedia][3][https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prejudice)

### Do they apply to “higher” people?  
- In literature and psychology, pride and prejudice are most visible
exactly in people with higher status or talent, because their position
makes it easier to feel above others and to judge them.
[mentalfloss][4][https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/591317/pride-and-prejudice-had-different-meanings-to-jane-austen)
- Research on pride distinguishes “authentic pride” (grounded,
humble confidence) from “hubristic pride” (status-based
superiority), and it finds that hubristic pride strongly increases
prejudice toward those seen as “below.” [journals.sagepub][5][https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0146167211429449)

### A more precise way to say your point  
If your idea is that truly excellent people (spiritually or morally
mature, not just rich or elite) should be beyond pride and prejudice,
you could phrase it like this:

> “For those who rise above mediocrity in character, pride and
prejudice lose their power; they see their own gifts without despising
others.”

That keeps your hierarchy idea, but makes it clear that *real*
greatness is exactly what dissolves this “looking down on people,”
not what excuses it. [psychologytoday][6][https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pathways-experience/201609/pride-and-prejudice)
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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #4  2026-05-04  
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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #3  2020-06-13  
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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #2  2020-06-14  
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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #1  2020-06-22  
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Subject: look down and better blessed
Message: #0  2020-06-12  
one of the greatest failure in the human race would be to give up this
world and transcend to a place of eternal bliss would be to go back a
century or so and get lost forever to the future generations to be
blessed better way and so that anymore cause of nature itself taking
its punishment of humman beings would be thrown out of disorder
causing the nature itself punished for a long time since now and so on
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