Why do we Criticize Others?

Paula Gloria: Why is there such a tendency to criticize others to make ourselves look good?

Marshall Rosenberg: Because we’ve been educated for 10,000 years, according to the theologian Walter Wink in his book, “The Powers That Be.” We have been educated for 10,000 years to maintain domination structures, in which a few people dominate many, and such structures require a language of domination – a language in which the people at the top who claim to be authorities know what is right/wrong, know who is good/bad. Those judgments determine who deserves rewards/punishment. We have been educated to think in terms of moralistic judgments.