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Ok here is my first go at trying to explain my theory. And the theory is no longer stating that superiority and inferiority can explain everything us Humans do - this has changed to a law. It's just how it is, it holds true universially. The theory goes to understand why this law exist:
I have discovered a law. It states the following; “All human interaction can be described by our perceptions of superiority and inferiority”.
This seems to hold universal. From our love in a family, to lovers, friendship, hatred, jealousy, anger, laughter, and so forth, all these inter-personal interactions can be described in the terms of superiority and inferiority. By definition superiority and inferiority are comparative qualities, and therefore we can compare to one another. But when we do so, it is simply not enough to state that one is superior, or better. But in the same context state token the weight of inferiority carries the shared significance, as it is this notion that you are worse, that leads you to value better.
Let me give some examples that hold the universality of this law, in some of the instances that have been hardest to explain.
For starters, when one sees a couple together, where one of the pair is remarkably gorgeous and the other is just plain ugly, we ask how can this be? In the context of superiority and inferiority it explains attraction in the following way. Lets say in this situation the girl is beautiful and the guy is ugly. Well the guy is attracted to the girl for her beauty which is obviously superior to his. Although he has inferior looks to the girl, the girl is attracted perhaps to his charisma, his charm, or his intelligence, all which are superior to the girls in this regard. For this the lack of superiority and inferiority is mitigated for each side – the girl feels superior because her partner is superior in fields she is inferior, likewise for the guy. This same notion can then be expanded to explain friendship. When an “equilibrium” of sorts is met to when the qualities of our superiority are equal to the superiority of another in the same category, we have a common value, however when it is our superiority that makes up for their lack in inferiority and vice versa, you have a bond. This is why friends, like lovers tend to compliment one another in the sense of their “virtues” – superiorities and inferiorities. The closer this equilibrium is met – to the fact that equality is seen as an understood value between friends, the friendship is stronger. When inequality exists, when it is extended marks a lessening of that very same bond.
From here we have hatred; hatred is simply the in-acceptance of ones superiority or inferiority over others. It does not necessarily bother us that someone is better looking then us – superior in looks. But it does bother us when they are “snobby” – when they refuse to recognizes our superiorities to their inferiorities.
The hardest challenge to explain however is the love in family. Where does this bond come from? It seems apparently impossible to explain how families can love one another fairly unconditionally when many members of the family refuse to recognizes superiorities and inferiorities. However this can mitigate by a certain point; Childhood. As a child, you unconditionally recognize your parents as superiors, and accept your inferiority to them in almost every acceptable notion. From here stems the deep love, the recognition of such. But at a certain age a child comes to bare his own perceptions of the world and here is the test of the families love. Many families come to ruins at this point. The child grows of age, realizes his father say is not as superior as he believed him to be in a certain aspect, and believes himself to be actually superior, and his father inferior. It is at this time that the new recognition of superiority – yes they actually are better then me here, they are wiser in age and wisdom, reinforce our love. Or the breaking of our perceptions of the established superiority and inferiority cause our love to weaken – no he lied to me he is not the strongest man in the world, he is not smart, he’s not clever, and he is actually a low life. The love however has a strong base on the understanding of the superiority and inferiority equilibrium that has been built previously through childhood, and perhaps strengthened such. In the same regard, if we have a break of this love in childhood, and degradation of this love further we come to the other extreme end.
These are just a few examples, but the point I am making is that all human interaction can be described by the law I noted above. Everything can be described by our perceptions of superiority and inferiority. And you may ask so? And so indeed, what does it matter? I will cede two things on this note. First, that many of us do not realize this. As a firm opponent of unconscious thought, I was the least to want to grasp that we – our brain evaluates all our current human interaction on this very basis. Once someone points this out you will now realize what your brain has been doing without realizing. You will compare your interaction, situations with other individuals and witness how your mind values their inferiority and superiority to your inferiority and superiority. The second is that there seems to be a conclusion to the fact that ALL human interactions can simply be explained in the context of two words.
It proves something, the fact that we can describe all human interaction in these two words, of superiority and inferiority, means we live in endless competition and comparison. Now having proved we live in endless competition and comparison, so what? What does this mean?
And for here a true philosopher would have to derive a great conclusion. For me it simply means the following at this point in time. The fact that we live in endless comparative evaluation means that the basic notions of our equality must be questioned at least from an inherent nature or creator origin. If we are created to be comparatively evaluating everything, why is this? Is this a sign of a natural, or divine hierarchy? I do not know. One thing is clear however, feeling superior makes us happy. And we feel superior by sharing in someone else superiority – this makes us happy. But that again begs the same question, why does superiority make us happy? Why is it important, and what is its origin. For this I must still think.
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