on Status

On the Fallacy of Status in Human affairs
© M7 2009

What is Status? In Human beliefs, Status is the social rank of an individual. Material Wealth, having Gold or “precious” items, and prospering businesses are seen as Status. Or high intellect, spontaneous creativity, or artistic expression is Status. Or immortal fame, of royal/divine blood, or religious origin is also Status.

Why is Status important? Only Humen believe that they are “superior” to others because of Status. “Inferior” people are lacking in types of Status. The “winning mindset” of Americans is seen as Status, while “losers” often are responsible for suicides/crimes due to this lack of social cohesion. (While some primates and birds also appear to have Status in their community relationships, human people are the most expressive).

Not all forms of Status are legitimate. Many are artificial to appease personal glory, ego, or self-worth. Creating a Micronation/Micro-state is a way to garner this self-worth IF the rest of the world is competing for national pride or admiration. Inventing false pedigrees in new religion (Judaism, Christianity, & Hatshepsut’s Divine Birth) is an illegitimate form of Status. We all want to feel special. It fills the void in an empty heart, yet emboldens hatred/envy by those without it. Real Kings may have divine birth as their origins, but there are people who invent royal lines where there are none, though distant / genetic or Genographic lines are valid. Whatever the origin of status, any form of status is likely to garner public word-of-mouth activity, even if it is falsely attributed (a lie). American Presidents are the exception: they have no status; they are elected or sometimes appointed, a public servant, a paper slave. Yet they mingle with foreign heads of State, foreign Kings and Princes and Sultans and Emperors: people WITH Status. And they think they are above the legitimate because of their belief in “freedom”, a new form of Status. Freedom as status is relatively new, coming from slave colonies of Great Britain who discovered new lands and much mined gold to their liking, that they took root here and fought over it, and won. They have fought over this status ever since, and in every new war they remind their population about this freedom-status, as if it will ‘go away’ if they don’t go to war, and rob the world of ITS status. Indians (from India) have a caste system of Status, the ‘red eye’ on their brow indicates high status, while ‘blue eye’ paint is ‘untouchables’ or extremely low status, so low that they cannot be allowed access to technology or civilization. The Jews from Israel believed in the status of their god, and the false story of Exodus that made them believe that the “slaves of Abraham conquered the mighty Egyptian gods,” so to speak, “even though had they won they would have took over Egypt, instead of running away like cowards.” And then they wonder why they were “persecuted” by all the great civilizations like Rome, persecuted over this false status that Moses invented to keep his people together. So Status has conflicts with reality and other forms of status. The false genealogy of “Jesus” in the Bible is of course invented to give him the royal status as a descendant/heir of King David of Israel (the husband of Mary was declared this genealogy, not the ‘divine birth’). Hatshepsut invented her “divine birth from AmonRa” because women were not allowed to be King in Kemt. But if the gods approved, she argued, then it was legitimate, and her divine blood made Thutmose 3 higher in status than previous kings. Alexander the Great’s mother declared him “son of Zeus” (which influenced his attachment to gods of other faiths as their son, too), as a higher form of Status to that of his father, the conquering King Philip. This status enraged Philip into ‘disinheriting Alexander’, so Alexander went off to conquer the world, avenging his father’s assassination like Horus did for Osiris. French Emperor Napoleon I invented a false ‘royal’ pedigree for his family BEFORE he conquered France and parts of Europe, for a system of status while in the Military College he attended. Had this status been revealed as false, would he have still created his empire?

If “we are all created equal” then “we all have equal status,” provided we are “created” and not “evolved.”

© M7 2009.