1. Marked by meekness or modesty in behavior, attitude, or spirit; not arrogant or prideful.
Our culture doesn't encourage humility. Most cultures don't.
Our culture doesn't reward meekness. Our culture rewards arrogance, force, dominance, power, control, ego; Our culture encourages and rewards pride.
We collectively perceive humility as weakness, while we perceive arrogance and pride as being the qualities of the strong, the powerful, the deserving.
The bible comments of these qualities.
Psalms 25:9
The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way.
Psalms 37:11
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor.
Psalms 73:6
Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
Proverbs 13:10
By pride comes nothing but strife, but with the well-advised is wisdom.
When I see so many "power of pride" bumper stickers I wonder.
Is it a sign of weakness to be humble.... to be meek?
To swim against the cultural current calls for great strength.
Meekness is not weakness.
1 comment:
Years ago I realized that the mainstream culture we are trapped in was created by, and for, the most aggressive members of society. These people won't hesitate to impose their trip on you. They have set themselves up as the paragons of the qualities they embody. The rest of us are a buncha fuckin losers.
(It's best not to internalize such alien values.)
I have always viewed myself as a tiny mammal, scurrying around in the undergrowth, trying to avoid being crushed by the soon-to-be-extinct dinosaurs. Unfortunately it looks like the dinosaurs are going to take the entire planet down with them.
Maybe a good substitue for "meek" would be "laid-back." "Laid-back" connotes casualness, friendliness, gentleness, openness, all those qualities so despised by the aggressive so-called masters of the universe.
Too bad the counter-culture resulted in so little.
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