Tenth Note to “Laila (Part Three)”

And if we were to perhaps go one step past our individual and personal class bias and class situation as a lens or a prism through which we assess and analyze abstract and theoretical dilemmas and issues, from a purely utilitarian standpoint – or in terms of means and ends or goals and strategies – it becomes a question or a matter of whether we derive prestige from money and wealth, or from poverty and struggle. And then of course, we derive prestige from something even more basic and fundamental, namely, morality. Thus, it becomes a question or a matter of whether there is greater morality associated with money and wealth, or with poverty and struggle. And of course, there can never be a consensus on this.