Martha Bakes and Gaugin

February 9, 2015.

I was watching 'Martha Bakes' on PBS and the thought occurred to me that Martha went to jail
after a trial, and then I thought how Greg went to jail, and was held 'prisoner' for a year with no trial, and then I had to think about all those kids, who are still in jail, waiting for their trial and how ridiculous it is to call the whole system 'justice'.  And yet some people called judges still have their own take on the law, just like in the 60's, and defy the Supreme Court.

My next thought was about the real incidences that I read about in the Bragg books, when the nurse 'looked down her nose' and thought about that kind of unpleasant experience, looking 'down' on others because of the perceived lack of education or wealth or social rank or colour or religion - and I then thought about that 'thing' I have mentioned earlier : " I am better than you".   Is that perception a Darwinian instinct or is it something unpleasant in humans and a 'thing' that has been taught?

I do not know the answer, but I do know that when Greg was accused of fraud, and a pretty big fraud at that, there was a lot of 'looking down' on him from the long noses of inheritance, wealthy people who have created nothing other than being born into wealth,  suddenly believed the false accusations and felt the urge to announce that they had always been suspicious and just knew that it had to be fraud.  Jumping on the guilty bandwagon was easy since the accusation did come from the 'justice' system, and was part of the character assassination plan after all.  And yet it still boils down to that same old problem, "I am better than you", and I really don't like that problem at all since I haven't a clue how to tackle it.

Gaugin painting sells for $300 million - and goes to Quatar?  Another thing to worry about, I thought that it was against religious beliefs to depict the human form.