I’m truly baffled that people would become very self-conscious of all the small unease of everyday life and then choose to elevate them as major inconveniences. It’s a bit like discovering who holds your chains and redoubling in bondage and obedience to this silent master.
Nobles can take offense at peasants, but peasants can’t take offense at nobles.
Peasants are expected to take care not to offend nobles, but nobles aren’t expected to take care not to offend peasants.
Maybe it’s a bit like that.
(More generally, we can imagine a sort of “metaperennialist” framework, whereby there are, for whatever reason, common human behavioral modules that can be activated when certain conditions obtain, even if no one involved is thinking in terms of these modules and in fact they all think they’re doing something completely different. (Cf. standard perennialism, whereby there are metaphysical truths underlying all religions, which can be mystically experienced even when no one involved is thinking in terms of these truths and in fact they all think they’re being visited by the Holy Spirit or talking to Jibril or whatnot.) One advantage of this framework is that it can easily explain why people would choose to pay such attention to the micro—and why certain people would make this choice, and certain others would not. Frankly, the people who pay the most attention to the micro tend to remind me of Captain Aguilera.)
Nobles can take offense at peasants, but peasants can’t take offense at nobles.
Peasants are expected to take care not to offend nobles, but nobles aren’t expected to take care not to offend peasants.
Maybe it’s a bit like that.
(More generally, we can imagine a sort of “metaperennialist” framework, whereby there are, for whatever reason, common human behavioral modules that can be activated when certain conditions obtain, even if no one involved is thinking in terms of these modules and in fact they all think they’re doing something completely different. (Cf. standard perennialism, whereby there are metaphysical truths underlying all religions, which can be mystically experienced even when no one involved is thinking in terms of these truths and in fact they all think they’re being visited by the Holy Spirit or talking to Jibril or whatnot.) One advantage of this framework is that it can easily explain why people would choose to pay such attention to the micro—and why certain people would make this choice, and certain others would not. Frankly, the people who pay the most attention to the micro tend to remind me of Captain Aguilera.)