Sing it Jean Knight

The arrogance of the human race has been driving me mad lately. I have been seeing it everywhere recently, and in the least suspecting people. It had snuck up on me while I was walking through the loop during my lunch on a fabulous summer day. I was disgusted by the amount of people whom would just walk right over the homeless, as if they were road kill they refused to recognize. That is an actual human being sitting there, while they are pan handling, they are still people that you could at the very least acknowledge their existence. Then it slapped me in the face over pints with some friends. A friend of mine whom is an instructor at a city college admitted that he felt far more intellectually superior to his students and enjoyed the power kick from humiliating them in class, he felt as if it were some redemption for being picked on in high school, for being a geek by the jocks. I felt so appalled for him, I just thought, who do you think you are? And then it kicked me in the shins by another acquaintance whom after self-proclaiming his genius asked "can't you just sit there and look pretty?" to me after possibly being stumped by my questioning his reasoning. Is it so hard to believe that there might be people in the world who know things you might not be aware of? What is the purpose of having any knowledge if you can't share it, and gain from others? The arrogance of our President never ceases to get me fired up, but then again I answer my own question when I yell "who do you think you are, the leader of the free world?" during the State of the Union Address, because yes, he is, in a way, but he is also an elected official, who is totally impeachable. I was so mad after I finished reading about the History of the Peloponnesian War. I couldn't believe the nerve of the Athenians, being indulgent in their strength against the Melians, because well, if not them than surely someone else would destroy the poor little city. I get so upset when I see people being blatantly rude to the deli guy, or the taxi driver, because as I see it, our place in the world happens by sheer accident of birth, we do have some choices we can make to alter our fates, but ultimately all roles of our society need to be filled, and the guy driving you to work in the morning is no less of a person because of his profession. Society needs a good kick in the ass from Karma to realize that being a bully is just mean, and there is just no need to walk around being an arrogant prick on this silly little planet.