Growing up in an environment where intellectual competence is the bare minimum to garner oneself respect and every other talent of yours just a redeeming factor to make up for your lack of academic excellence. Even then, such an argument is far too contrived to describe the phenomenon that is 'elitism'. I disagree with the way elitism is lauded as a culture, giving off an impression that it is a community of exclusive behaviour, one that we have won the rights to. Far from that, it is a plague and an inevitable onset of human behaviour. You put together a group of ostensibly intellectually superior beings and you practically redefine what it means to be 'smart'. Outstanding characteristics become the norm and the only way that one can succeed now is when others fail to do so. But failure is a concept so distant for many trapped in their bubble of ideal. It is very much so like any atom loafing about aimlessly in space, a speck of the universe so tiny it is insignificant and altogether negligible, yet when compressed together in a multitude of formations, we get the Earth and all its entities; living, breathing and capable of destroying.

But against all the ridiculous characteristics of this unrefined 'culture', we get the idea that people sign up for such a privilege. It gives a positive connotation that there are exclusive hallmarks awaiting your enjoyment just as soon as you sell your life away to elitism and a lifelong payment of stress and social inaptitude.

Bullshit.

Well, at least I never signed up for this. It is in plain sight that we try to be more than we are and behave as someone else we were never meant to be. The way we craft even the simplest of sentences, a tweet for example, is riddled with pride and convoluted with our agenda to impress rather than to express. I myself am guilty for such actions but I refuse to take full responsibility for such an outcome. Sounds selfish doesn't it? Perhaps, that's just further evidence that I'm in the right 'culture' after all.

We were bred to be wild but when you take us wild creatures and place us at the top of the pedestal, it is of no surprise that we begin to regard ourselves as people of eminence and people of imminent power. We have been kept hidden within the four walls of your brilliant education system, an irony to the principle of being omniscient. We know everything, from the ways the planet line up in the solar system, to the smallest of particles that make up our universe. But we are ignorant of the way society stands in a line; we reckon that this line is vertical and we are stacked right on top, a wonderful burden for the rest of society to carry. We are ignorant of the tiny speck of entity that is failure, slowly amassing inside us and waiting to take root one day when we get carried away.

And society ridicules and condemns us for putting on such airs. It is true, and nobody is wrong. Well, in fact, we are wrong but can we be blamed entirely? It is a cruel thing to say but without social stratification, there is an inherent flaw with our understanding of progression.

This is coming off all too steadfast and grounded in elitist thinking doesn't it. Let's try this again.

I'm elitist. Help me.