Equality? My Foot

So, I've been thinking (yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, "trying to...").
Somehow it seems that people fit into stereotypes, based on what they do for a living.
Sure, there are the odd ones out, but by and large the templates seem to fit.
This is not meant to be diminishing the value of anyone or any profession, but simply point out that there seems to be a reason why some people are good at one thing and lousy at another.
A reason that goes and well and truly beyond mere training and upbringing.

Examples, farmers usually make decent administrators and decent factory workers but lousy professionals and generally lousy leaders; soldiers often make decent leaders, but poor administrators, professionals are bad at everything but their specific profession (and even that is arguable) - which is why they apparently like to go into politics and mess things up professionally once eleceted.

So, if some people are good at specific things and less good at others, why did we ever abandon the caste system?

Okay, the caste system was a bit too static to be good, but if it was set up in a way that allowed jumping from caste to caste based on one's achievements, then it would probably work.
But then, professional associations, country club membership, college and university clubs and alumni organisations, joining political and charitable organisations, all boil down to little else but a more sophisticated caste system anyway.

In other words, when we achieve a certain degree of success in a particular field, we immediately begin to socialize with "our kind" and shut everyone else out. Indeed, the elite typically has an instinctive disdain for the "unwashed pedestrians". In other words, people do their utmost to achieve a priviledged position, and once there, move heaven and earth to keep others from doing the same.

So, no matter how sophisticated and enlightened we claim to be, deep inside we don't want equality. We want to be equal to those ahead of us, and superior to everyone else.
If this is indeed natural and instinctive, then equality does not only not exist, but is in fact unnatural and thus a bad thing.

This then suggests that political correctness is unnatural and evil, prejudice and discrimination on the other hand, would lead to happieness and satisfaction. Well, you know, for those who "made it" ;o)

Cheers,
ThePrivateer.