" We see today, as if scales were falling from our eyes, that even nature, that great conferrer of talent and ally of bourgeois ascent, was itself conceived of rather like a court in which there were still protégés and favorites. Thus, when exposed to the light, nature is as unjust and capricious as the absolute ruler, nay, even more: it is the absolutism of chance in its purest form. With this insight, talent and genius become offensive to all those who, as Niklas Luhmann so finely (and maliciously) put it once, must also live off their looks. First there is discontent, then comes hatred, and hatred, as always, is followed by a codicil of good reasons. "

― Peter Sloterdijk , After God