Snobbery: when intelligence is higher than sensuality
Who is a snob? The Big Encyclopedic Dictionary gives the following definition: a snob is a person who carefully follows the tastes, manners, etc. of the upper world and neglects everything that goes beyond its rules; a person who claims an exquisitely refined taste, an exclusive range of occupations, interests …
Lacquered, perfumery, boudoir-elegant soul! He looks at the world through a lorgnette, and his aesthetics is that of a snob.
K. Chukovsky
How difficult it is sometimes to communicate with a seemingly intelligent and educated person. You feel uncomfortable with how cleverly they point out your shortcomings and at the same time subtly hint at your own superiority. Such an interlocutor wants to show his mental and aesthetic development, how much he knows about everything in the world, has an exquisite taste, understands art and music and understands this life (or its aspects) much better than you and everyone else.
In addition, he is distinguished by an ironic, dismissive, appraising look from top to bottom. It is not so easy to please such a person: the bar for evaluating others is too high for him. He evaluates others according to the only intellectual, behavioral and other criteria he knows: appearance, lack of style in clothes or manners that seem obligatory to him.
And it happens that such a person is also convinced of the nobility of his origin (as a rule, he does not possess such) and is inclined to divide people into classes. Himself, of course, reckoning with high society or imitating it, such a person does not want to communicate with people "from the people", falsely feeling that he is smarter and higher than ordinary people. And he brings up his children according to the same principle, instilling in them a sense of his own superiority over others. Teaches them etiquette and manners, rules of conduct, so that they can demonstrate the elegance of their manners in society.
The message seems to be correct. However, a condescending attitude has nothing to do with truly accepting the other person. And the grafted manners, which are not conscious, organically built into the general development of a person, create only a form, an external attribute of a person. That is why there is an inner discomfort from communicating with intellectual aesthetes, demonstrating their manners, ability to behave and awareness in various spheres of public life. We internally resist such an attitude towards ourselves and, aloud or inwardly, call such a person a snob.
What kind of people can become snobs?
Who is a snob? The Big Encyclopedic Dictionary gives the following definition: a snob is a person who carefully follows the tastes, manners, etc. of the upper world and neglects everything that goes beyond its rules; a person who claims an exquisitely refined taste, an exclusive range of occupations, interests.
To understand what is behind this, why a person becomes a snob, let us turn to the System-Vector Psychology of Yuri Burlan. System-vector psychology examines the reasons for this or that human behavior through vectors. A vector is a set of innate mental properties that determine a person's abilities, value system and manner of behavior. There are eight vectors in total. A modern person generally has 3-5 vectors. Each vector sets its owner a potential that needs to be developed and realized.
In people with a visual vector, the eyes are a particularly sensitive area. These people see the world in a special way, they feel it much more subtly than everyone else. The owners of the visual vector have forty times more brain lobes responsible for the visual analyzer than people with other vectors. The visual vector is also responsible for the perception of information, because 90% of the information enters the brain through vision.
This natural feature endows spectators with enormous creative and intellectual potential, imaginative thinking and a high learning ability. They are able to see and feel the beauty of the world like no other. Spectators want everything to be BEAUTIFUL.
In addition, they have the maximum emotional amplitude: from fear for their lives to love for others. Potentially, the owners of the visual vector are able to experience compassion and empathy for others, and love is their main meaning in life. They can see and appreciate not only the external, but also the internal beauty of people. For this, it is necessary to develop and realize the potential given by nature.
According to Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology, the visual vector, like any other, develops before the end of puberty, i.e. up to 14-16 years old, and the realization of vector properties is a process that lasts a whole life. With the proper development of the properties of the visual vector, its owners bring culture and art into society, are carriers of the ideas of humanism. They can be successfully implemented in all creative professions.
Also, carriers of the visual vector can embody the properties given by the vector in such areas as medicine and volunteer work, or simply help people who need help and support. That is, the viewer manifests himself where there is a need to subtly feel other people, empathize with them, help, create emotional connections with them, and work for bestowal.
Such a person, of course, cannot be a snob. Sensually developed, empathizing with other people, he does not feel that he is somehow superior to others, and, accordingly, does not seek to emphasize his superiority over them.
When a sensually developed and realized person with a visual vector expresses himself in compassion and empathy, he feels happy. After all, this is how he fills his real desires. And this filling does not leave room for negative internal states that an unfulfilled spectator can experience and that prevent him from getting more joy from life than provoking the manifestation of snobbery.
How an intellectual becomes a snob
As Yuri Burlan's System-Vector Psychology says, intellect and sensuality develop in parallel and may not always have the same degree of development. A person can be kind, responsive, but at the same time he may not shine with intellectual abilities.
When it comes to snobbery, it is exactly the opposite: the snob, whose intellect is very developed, lacks sensitivity. Or developed, but he does not know how to realize his potential. There is no skill of showing empathy, compassion and love for other people. And then the visual person experiences negative internal states, since his need for a vivid experience and expression of feelings and emotions is not fulfilled. Therefore, he seeks to fill his lack through snobbery, emphasizing his supposed superiority over others.
Thus, a snob is a person who fails to feel the fullness of life. He does not receive his maximum possible pleasure, because he cannot (does not have the skill or simply does not know how) to fully realize himself. Such a person unconsciously deprives himself of the joy and feeling of living life in its entirety. And this "lack of happiness", the incompleteness of life, push the visual person to manifest snobbery, as a kind of compensation, a surrogate filling of internal shortages.
The snob thinks that he thinks in "higher" categories than others. For example, he strives to read serious literature, attends exhibitions and performances, and if the other does not read, does not go to premieres, or simply does not dress fashionably (again from the point of view of a snob), then this is just one of the unworthy people, which can be looked down on contemptuously.
Thus, a visual person suffering from snobbery comes up with certain templates for himself by which he evaluates others. And all people who do not meet these norms (usually all people, with the exception of himself), are perceived as a snob from above, with some dislike. That one, in his opinion, is poorly dressed, and the other one speaks badly, and the third one is generally ignorant, cannot support a conversation about Mona …
Summarizing the above, we can draw the following conclusion. When an intellectually developed person with a visual vector does not have sufficient realization, he belittles the unworthy, in his opinion, people who do not fit into his ideas about what they should be. So the snob falsely lifts himself above them, as if demonstrating his intellectual superiority. Trying to get the missing pleasure from life in this way. Self-asserting in this way at the expense of the "unworthy", he gets his scanty pleasure. It seems to him that the rest should be glad already that the "elite" turned their attention to them.
From outer form to inner content
However, the lack of implementation that the visual vector requires, internal voids, cannot be filled with snobbery, no matter how hard you try. After all, a person experiences the greatest joy and pleasure from life when he realizes the properties set by nature, fills his true desires. In the case of the visual vector, this realization is empathy and compassion, the establishment of emotional connections with other people. Therefore, if a visual person shows the traits of a snob, this is a sign that he is not being realized.
System-vector psychology of Yuri Burlan provides knowledge about the human psyche, helps to understand one's real desires and the possibilities of their realization. We learn to see deeper the inner world of other people, their inner beauty, and not just the outer shell. To realize your natural properties, mental and emotional potential, to get more joy from communicating with people and pleasure from life, register for free online lectures on Systemic Vector Psychology by Yuri Burlan.
