Those That Lack Class

You would think it wouldn't be such a rare quality, but the more I learn about life, the more I see for myself that sometimes it's just too much to ask for someone to display the most minimal degree of class.

"For all his veneer of aristocracy,
and his wealth,
and his priveleged life--
he has no class whatsoever."

Lines that may not go down in history, but that resound in my conscience as the truest that have been spoken in the past months.

There are such people in the world that walk about as if their pause to speak with you is a favor of a kind its own, thier efforts to put forth the basic manners of expected propriety - is something that should be heralded. It shocks me to see just how one who seems to carry himself with such superior purpose, with such exception - is little more than a coward when it comes to the greater measures of humanity.

It is not a measure of your intellect whether you can plaguirize the world's greatest thinkers and quote the most profound passages - you are nothing when you have no thoughts of your own to put forth, when you behave in such a manner that even Nietzsche would deem you unworthy of his proposal for the "overman."

Basic propriety, a degree of humanity, an original thought - you cannot offer even one of these.

And no, I don't believe it's too much to ask for.