am suggesting, then, that society is breaking through the chains of shaming and contempt, but that we are hitting a great glass ceiling of Sklavenmoral and envy. This envy will likely target not primarily the power, wealth and attention of the fortunate. No. It will go after a much subtler and more sensitive aim: the highest inner potentials of our fellow human beings. Little pins in that voodoo doll. Nothing hurts our sense of “chosenness” and immortality more than the manifest sublimity of another’s soul. Not only that they are successful, but that they are idealistic, good-hearted,
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