We all feel that twinge of envy for someone
or other. Historically people looked up to great
artists, composers, bards, military commanders
and so forth. These days greatness doesn't really
exist. These days there are no great leaders.
The mediocre are promoted over the skilled,
and PR is given rule over achievement.
Even rock stars have been done away with, thanks
to the lamentable corporate music industry.
And the arts are dominated
by modern/avant garde/"conceptual art"
which is pretty talent free and mundane.
So we have no great icons to revere. Envy is
not what it was. Instead people are reduced
to envying the rich for their loot, the celebrity
for their famousness, and the gorgeous for their
mien.
The key to envy is the grass is greener idea.
But the filthy rich are not much happier than
we are, if at all, and many are workaholics
and obsessives. The rich maybe compensating
for some inner emptiness by building external
cathedrals of glitter. The beautiful are frequently
deficient in the cranium - look at the average
model. The famous have virtually no freedom,
are imprisoned by media badgering, and are doomed
to be gleefully mocked by the fickle media reptiles
that trash them as soon as their star so much
as flickers.
Envy is to regret not being in a hotter hell
than the modest hell in which we presently dwell.
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