Elitism

I am currently reading Gore Vidal's memoir, "Palimpsest, A Memoir". I appreciate Mr. Vidal's wit, educated cynicism and downright wickedness. I think he is funny. Always have. However, I am mystified by the evolutionary failure of men like Mr. Vidal, who are raised among the elite, see their failings and persist in becoming elitists themselves. Power indeed corrupts. The point of this blog, this part of my practice, is to do what the elite do not wish to do. That is to simply share what I know, think, hope and do in an effort to both learn and perhaps inspire. This blog is not a competitive enterprise, or a means to engrandize myself. My real motivation, which I cherish in my own being and becoming, is woefully absent in the elite, as I read them. I find that absence terribly discouraging of my hopes for human evolution. I read the writing of the elite to try to understand what, other than power, they have to offer. So far, I have been disappointed to find that many, although exposed to a vast diversity of life experience, avoid basic human truth. A wise man two millennia ago, as the legend goes, spoke of the eye of a needle and a camel in this respect. And, if entering what he called heaven means what I consider the evolution of being human, I have to agree with him.