I think that something that should have done for own will, like to meet with friends, to learn the lesson or to respect an "important" person or object, we've turned it into a need. Our social status haven't just given us a place in this world, it also defense us from him, so "we" need to keep it and to improve it to get a calmer and more pleasant life. A protection formed by a repression of our primary desires and also a beauty mask provides "safety" to us. If we haven't these protection, we would live, literally, like wild animals.
But this "protection" use to fail, to be broken by the time. I mean, when someone see us like what we are, animals, he should think that this protection is just a necessary joke. I think that nobility and to be hidden from the world, are directly proportional (when one of them grows, the other one too). I don't like to recognize someone that I don't know anything like "superior" just because he has done "important" things that I never heard about them before. I know that this person could have spent a lot of time in his work or maybe he's done something that anyone did it before, but I won't give to him more respect if I don't value his work or if I haven't heard anything about him... I think that's logical. I'm not trying to justificate a "wrong" conduct, I'm just saying that in this elitist society, if someone do disagreeable things, people think that he's a bad person. But it's not true... these people that kill, robber etc. shows us that we are what we are, just animals. These people satisfy their instintive desires, those desires that ALL US have. We've created the culture, and not the upside-down.