Theme: Class

(taunts to a prole girl)

You have clearly never had responsibility, power, or wealth, because if you did, you’d understand that competition just makes the entire process more exciting. The weak worry. The strong bait the weak for amusement while they achieve their goals.

Now, you see, name calling, is an admission that one cannot participate in a discourse because of inadequate vocabulary, available knowledge, available paradigms, and the ability to organize them into a set of constant relations that we call ‘argument’ – what humans do.

When the underclass decides that it will violate the class contract for peaceful negotiations and resorts to name calling, shaming and rallying, it is the upper class’ responsibility -the obligation of the nobility- to exercise good paternal judgment and discipline the children.

While it is the fashion in this era to act out the pretense of humoring the peasantry, for those of us with long family histories and centuries of responsibility to bear the high cost of Paternal exercise in defense of the normative commons the peasantry takes for granted.

Now, any good parent, relative, kin, neighbor or nobility will exercise some modicum of patience – usually to let the children vent their energies – at some time we must invest a bit of our energies in necessary disciplinary action. otherwise the children will never mature.

And one of the lessons that we can best provide is to make an example of a particularly infantile child just to remind the rest of the vermin that grownups do exist, and there is a limit to our paternal tolerance.