Belief and reality - Why do we deny elitism exists?

JUST as the majority of humanity once believed that our world was flat, that the colour of your skin or sexual orientation was an indicator of your humanity or character; just as the Catholic church — and far too many other religions — thought it was perfectly acceptable to suppress those who disagreed with them by barbecuing them alive, we have convinced ourselves that elitism is redundant.

We have, despite all of the everyday, in-your-face evidence, convinced ourselves of the universality of man, that we are all the same and that elitism has no place in a modern, inclusive democracy.

Of course this is a denial of reality on a par with those ancient maps of the world that ended at a wave-crashed cliff, where sailing ships toppled into the unknown and the baffled cartographer could be no more helpful than to warn us “there be unknown monsters and spirits lurking there”.