2006-07-25 05:58:25 · 11 answers · asked by list 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
society enjoys wallowing in it's mediocrity . . to acknowledge anything else would be way too challenging
2006-07-25 06:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by Joy L 4 · 16⤊ 2⤋
Its the old saying, the great established truths of today began as heresies. The first person to say the world was round was probably called a satan possessed fool, or worse. Pasteur discovered microbes and was denounced as un-Godly. Whatever is new or different is often seen as a threat. Just think of the emotional connotations of the word "alien"--totally negative and frightening. The Unknown is responded to that way, I think, out of a biological response, a default to a safe, familiar mode to keep a being out of trouble, yet advances can only be made on the fringes, by definition, and it takes special, rare individuals to do that.
2006-07-25 06:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most indivduals that reach intelligent or great artist status have given so much energy to their endevour that they become sexy and wanted. Nothing is most hated that a person who has given themselves to the greater cause and recieves accolades. Simple jelousy by those who have no chance of giving of themselves to the whole.
2006-07-25 06:03:02 · answer #3 · answered by sleepylew2002 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we don't want to think that anyone is better than we are. As soon as someone shows some talent, we start looking for their weaknesses so we don't feel inferior. After the talented person dies, we feel safe to show them respect, but while they live, we can't stand thinking of them as good. No one hates me very much yet, so I'm not talented. Yay!
2006-07-25 06:07:34 · answer #4 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Purely an inferiority complex on society's part.
2006-07-25 06:08:40 · answer #5 · answered by Maria Gallercia 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They lack the mental capacity to understand them and their Ideas. And it's also fear of the unknown being afraid to embrace new ideas or thought process.
2006-07-25 06:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by brianlefttoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the majority of society are retards that are too stupid to appreciate things that are different and deviates from the norm
2006-07-25 06:03:00 · answer #7 · answered by incubabe 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
b/c society (the majority of it) is an idiot. and they cannot grasp their superego to society's id.
2006-07-25 06:01:46 · answer #8 · answered by amdirien 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People fear and despise that which they do not understand.
2006-07-25 06:04:33 · answer #9 · answered by Zariza Burgundie Rose 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jealous, I think.
2006-07-25 06:02:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋