in ancient athens, at the time of socrates, a lot of governance was done by allotment. eventually, the idea
that some people were jsut better at some things than others began to be a deomonstrable fact, no matter how much it grated on people.
and thn it tended to go bad, and there began to be an entitlement to the "being better" of the type tht gets slammed in orwell's animal farm.
in the meantime, a word that meant "alotted" began to mean special, different, cool.....clergy.
at the time when people realised it might be their lot in life to be the mayor, or the shaman, or the singer-songwrtier, they took the job, and did it, and went on.
they didn;t mix their ego with the craft.
they could wake up one day and go, o, dang, i'm a poet. o dang, i'm a general.
they never saw a need to think it meant something.
so, did aristotle and his little cruise thru the greek islands of thought and taxonomy take something away?
when blogger restores its pix uload, this spot may contain an image from parthenon times showing the serpent as the comopanion of a greek ideal of wisdom.