Superiority Is A Defense

Superiority is a disease – a dis-ease with feeling inferior.

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Transcript

Superiority Is A Defense

The Grasshopper recently opined, “Superiority is a defense against feeling inferior.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ve been a card carrying member of the superior club for most of my adult life.

One of the things I’ve discovered is membership in that august body doesn’t foster a lot of close relationships. That’s because just about all the people outside of that circle are deemed unworthy.

What also hit me was the sensation of feeling inferior was a fate worse that death. At least after you die, you don’t any longer feel inferior, much less anything else. But for the living superior person, feeling inferior is to be avoided at all cost.

If we deem ourselves better than others, that feeds our superiority and we temporarily hold our inferior feelings at bay.

Superior people may have lots of acquaintances, but make few connections. Most of their interactions are superficial and have little depth. This causes them to stay on the periphery with others and they can’t connect.

Their life’s mission is to avoid the feelings of inferiority. Their distraction is superiority.

These is a cure: the realization that everyone you meet has the same life force animating them that animates you.

Beneath our outward conditioned veneer, we’re all the same. 

I think back on two car models from 1967: The Chevy Camaro and the Pontiac Firebird. They looked different on the outside but both came off the same General Motors production line and had the same engine and innards. Owners of these vehicles would argue which one was superior, not ever realizing they were both the same, except for their outward appearance.

The next time your superiority rears its ugly head, notice the “in” vs. the “out” instead, and  your feelings of inferiority will be put to bed.

All the best,

John