Supremacism

What is supremacism? Most people seem to think it’s superiority taken to extremes, but that’s to misunderstand how minds work. The need to be treated as superior isn’t the kind of thing that’s good in moderation but a terrible in excess. The need to be treated as superior is a defect of the psyche that…

Cynics

Cynics make a basic and glaring mistake of characterization. And they do it twice. One, they characterize all of us by the worst of us. Two, they characterize each one of us as we are at our worst. So our best isn’t credible enough to characterize our nature, but our worst is. That hardly seems…