--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Excuse me, I should elaborate. > > As I read it, Peter was saying that Maharishi > dissed Jimmy Carter not because Jimmy Carter > was inherently inferior, but because Maharishi > is caste-conscious. Maharishi may have felt > that Carter was not qualified to be president - > lots of people agree - but it's also true that > caste- and class-conscious people tend to get > their shorts in knots when people further down > the social ladder gain power.
Maharishis comment was not about class or caste. Rather he was astonished that the americans would elect for president a fellow that had nothing more to show for himself than being a grower of peanuts, a not very healthy produce. That Carter was/is a fundamentalist christian did ofcourse also not elevate his standing.
