Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for August 06, 2015
August 05, 2015
August 07, 2015
Transcript:
Marigold: Lord Splendid Humility! Lord Splendid Humility: Hello, Marigold Heavenly Nostrils and her small human friend. Marigold: O unicorn most humble, please accept this fan letter I have written you. Lord Splendid Humility: No... I am FAR TOO HUMBLE to countenance such respect as you are showing me. Phoebe: ACCEPT THE LETTER, STUPID! Lord Splendid Humility: You see? Your friend gets it.
There was an 18th or 1`9th C Scottish diarist who did just this. He was a landowner, but had elevated low-self-esteem to an art form and when his tenants bought him a gift he rejected it because he wasn’t “worthy”. A Christian friend of mine who thought that low self-esteem was a noble moral position and who was writing a book about this bloke praised him for this, and I had to point out that far from being self-effacing and unselfish, the diarist had been so self-obsessed that he hadn’t even noticed that he was trampling on the feelings of his tenants and humiliating them to serve his own pet obsession and give himself a warm glow of conscious virtue.