<snip> Barry wrote: > I think that the tendency to believe in things like Atlantis and Lemuria and the like can all be attributed to self-importance on the part of the people believing in these things. They heard something or read something that makes them feel "special" and self-important because *they* "know" these things, and the people they look down on as "not as special" don't.
Ann wrote: > Yes, absolutely Barry. When one investigates and is curious about the > possibility of the existence of earlier cultures or other mysteries > concerning the history of the human race, real or simply the product of > myth, it must mean those people are full, simply choc-a-bloc, with > self-importance. Why didn't I realize that? How logical, how obvious, how > ridiculous and laugh-worthy such people are. You have provided me with a > real insight here, Bare, and one I know would make the historians, not to > mention the entire psychiatric community, reel by its obvious profundity. It's amazing how many human tendencies are due simply to self-importance, innit? It's the answer to pretty much everything. And we'd never have known if Barry hadn't told us. I guess he's able to see it so clearly because he himself has never felt even the slightest twinge of self-importance. We just aren't as "special" as he is, alas.
