Alan W. Watts Quote
The very identity of racist Southerners depends upon contrasting themselves with those dirty black nigras. But, conversely, the out-groups feel that they are really and truly in, and nourish their collective ego with relishingly indignant conversation about squares, Ofays, Wasps, Philistines, and the blasted bourgeoisie. Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look over the battlements and enjoy the proper justice of the sinners squirming in Hell. All winners need losers; all saints need sinners; all sages need fools—that is, so long as the major kick in life is to amount to something or to be someone as a particular and separate godlet.
The very identity of racist Southerners depends upon contrasting themselves with those dirty black nigras. But, conversely, the out-groups feel that they are really and truly in, and nourish their collective ego with relishingly indignant conversation about squares, Ofays, Wasps, Philistines, and the blasted bourgeoisie. Even Saint Thomas Aquinas let it out that part of the blessedness of the saints in Heaven was that they could look over the battlements and enjoy the proper justice of the sinners squirming in Hell. All winners need losers; all saints need sinners; all sages need fools—that is, so long as the major kick in life is to amount to something or to be someone as a particular and separate godlet.