When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people unsure of their own position will try to emphasize it by maltreating those they think rank below. I've read that this is why poor whites in the United States are the group most hostile to blacks.
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Not all mistreatment stems from personal insecurity.
The world seemed cruel and boring, and I'm not sure which was worse.
Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explic…
As a rule of thumb, the more qualifiers there are before the name of a country, the more corrupt the rulers. A country called The Socialist People's Democratic…
If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.
How to be one up - how to make the other man feel that something has gone wrong, however slightly.
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to men with profound…