How did the Normal Person* get such a massive ego?

This doesn’t apply to all the Normal Person*people, but it definitely applies to the ambitious variety; the ones who LOVE to get compliments and opportunities from the Savants* of some status or wealth. The way it works is that the Normal Person* goes fishing for compliments, acknowledgment, attention, and favors from an individual they think is FAR above their grade level and usually are right about it. The Savants* feels sorry for them, gives them the compliments and acknowledgment and attention they’re after, and quite potentially throws in a meaningless favor or two. They do not realize that anything they say is worth a pint of gold to the Normal Person* who believes you would NEVER say anything nice to them because your status is so much higher than theirs that you simply don’t have to be nice to them.

Ambitious the Normal Person*people tend to believe NOTHING as much as “good-looking people are mean and vicious.” (They view beauty as a skill, and skill means intelligence and good looks are a luxury skill, therefore a beautiful person must have gotten their beauty only after they’ve learned to be a proper dominating bastard… But that’s so not how the Savants* operate. To them, good looks are respect for another person’s aesthetic environment, nothing more. To a Savants*, looking bad is RUDE, not submissive.) Therefore, when they win their fear of beautiful people and try talking to them, instead of ridicule and contempt, they find kindness and friendliness; they don’t think the good-looking person is kind; they think they themselves have unduly low self-esteem and correct it accordingly. Alternatively, they may believe that the person with status (beauty, looks, wealth) is “lonely” or somehow otherwise downtrodden, to explain their kindness. If they’re lonely, they’re also exploitable; nobody is looking out for them.

A Normal Person* is right about something: You should NEVER give another person an unrealistic view of themselves. No matter how much they seemingly beg for compliments, they are actually begging for an honest review of how well or poorly they’re doing. The Normal Person* are not fearful of finding out they’re not as cool as they think; in fact, that is probably by far the best trait they have. They just want the truth, and they think a mean person is the one to ask for it… They just haven’t figured out that status people are not necessarily mean.

Therefore, if anyone asks you for a compliment or grovels at your feet, moaning about how pathetic they are or look, don’t make them feel better; just tell them how you truly feel with as much honesty as you can, and if you have to choose between being kind and honest, choose honesty.

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