I still get to watch a clique of "internetorati" on a private email discussion group. They stroke each other's egos and reassure themselves how much cleverer and more righteous they are than all those they condescend towards.
Their pride is sickening to behold, yet I need do nothing for them to experience a fall for the history books. They no longer interest me; they have become irrelevant, but don't yet know it. In their cosmology I am a joke, but it's their tragedy, not my comedy.
Time and time again, ego fed idealism falls way short.
When people look down upon others it creates an isolation bubble in which they only sustain self- that is self limiting without diverse stimulation.
An example; if people were only able to grow corn, and did not interact or trade with the towns and countries around them, eventually they would still starve. Life giving nutrients would be missing from the diet.
Same goes for thinking, in my opinion... By generating conversations that included many diverse minds, each individual can therefore increase overall consciousness through individual experience.
Love overcomes the stagnation, therefore feeding the overall consciousness. A gestalt, so to speak. The sum of the parts creates something greater than the individual pieces put together. That to me is like Christ Consciousness. WWG1WGA