During those 60 seconds of human contact between two strangers, your typical rich person reveals his class affiliation through consistent displays of social behaviours that are lacking in empathy, social engagement, generosity, and sensitivity. In comparison, your typical member of the lower classes instinctively treats others with far more empathy, altruism, and sensitivity, because a person who is NOT wealthy has learned that he or she needs other human beings to survive and prosper. Lower class people learn early in life that they have to ask for help when they need it and to offer it to others in return. In contrast, the wealthy generally feel entitled to 'focus on the self', and they believe that they’ve earned their own opportunities without the help of others.
The problem with many rich people is that they possess too many things and all this stuff begins to mess with their heads! Things have a perverse way of subtly taking hold of and possessing the possessor. Consequently spiritual attitudes like altruism, self-sacrifice, and doing for one’s neighbour as one would have done for oneself—just end up seeming to cost too much for too many of the wealthy.
I think this is perfect description of COG leadership in many of the various COG's. this includes Meredith, Flurry, Hulme, UCG and GCI. If you substitute the word "rich" above with "evangelists" you have a perfect description of a typical splinter cult leader.
Meredith, Herbert Armstrong,Flurry, Hulme, Pack all lack/lacked empathy, generosity, and sensitivity towards the lower class membership. The lower class members are just dumb money making machines there to support and maintain the lifestyles of the leadership.
Have you ever carried on a conversation with any of these cult leaders? They rarely look you in the eye for long periods of time, which an empathetic listener will do. They are constantly glancing around looking for someone more important to seek out.
They surround themselves with a small cadre of butt kissers who cling to every word and action. their social circle only include the leading ministry or those ordained. Few ever venture into the lower class homes unless it is to deliver a warning or stiff judgments. They have a sense of "entitlement" and that others should stand in awe of their magnificence.
Patton's blog is here: The World Tomorrow (how original!)
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The rich also have an arrogant dismissive attitude toward those they see as "the lower class".
What is more of concern, partly because it is so subtle and insidious, is the expectation that people will provide them with everything they want. They are used to the idea they get their way. They have the expectation that they are to be served, and anyone lesser than them are the servants. I find the depictions of the TV series "Royal Pains" and "Merlin" instructive: No matter how nice they may seem to be, they are always in charge and if you oppose them in any way, you will really really really regret it.
This sort of attitude is prevalent in those who used to be poor but, for one reason or another, come into money and / or power. In some ways, this is the worst of all worlds because such a person tends to be more harsh with the hired help.
Ah, but after awhile, the anger [with not having your way all the time] becomes like wearing old leather and the wearer doesn't even realize it is there.
One only has to have had the experience of trying to contact Herbert Armstrong in his later years, protected as he was, by the sychophants who surrounded him. He was used to getting his own way, had gold, silver, crystal, meeting with important world leaders, forgetting the fact that he stood on the dead and dying bodies of the poor to achieve the fulfilment of his covetousness. The rest of us were poor by comparison.
The new evil Emperors, rich in their kingdoms, are empty people who expect to be fed by their narcissistic sources they step on and abuse at their convenience.
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