Comments on: The superiority complex.

By: Manipulation: give up or fight? « Check Your Premises

Manipulation: give up or fight? « Check Your Premises — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:26:06 +0000

[...] is very much related to the superiority complex. The understanding and acceptance of norms and models of behaviour makes one feel superior to those [...]

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:34:33 +0000

“Bob (and no, I don’t mean your retro-nazi Fearless Leader) knows that’s all the Libertarian Party has ever been good for.”

LOL! ;)

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:33:51 +0000

@Eric Sundwall

“Is it really so stark and apparent that frustration with supposed opponents yields a deliberate function and capacity to summarize others as stubborn idiots or evil ?”

If you don’t understand that, you can’t convince others that the State need to be smashed!

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:31:34 +0000

“The parenting institution is another example of the superiority complex. “The “parent” claims near-total control over children on the basis of having had sex which led to the child’s birth. The justification for such control, we are told (putting aside the issue of the irrationality of assigning only two adults to any given child), stems from the superiority of the “parent” over the child, the latter not being able to fend for himself. Ergo, the “parent” knows better and should enforce his values on the child who is left without recourse, far beyond the acquisition of reason, in fact all the way to his eighteenth birthday. The child and young adult must be saved from his own “immature” desires.”

Maybe George referred to that. But I don’t see his point about uncertainty.

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:27:07 +0000

Eric, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:24:26 +0000

“Très bon raisonnement mais j’espère que tu sais que cela ne s’applique pas dans le commerce. Personne ne pense que lorsque Coke affirme : “Y a rien comme un bon coke” que cette compagnie a un complexe de supériorité.”

En quoi cela réfute la thèse de François? De plus, les corporateux ont souvent un complexe réel de supériorité.

I think Franc’s thesis applies in a commercial context also!

By: David Gendron

David Gendron — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:14:43 +0000

Clusiau is a regular reader of my blog.

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:01:09 +0000

Sundwall, why are you wasting your time here? Don’t you have some ideas to corrupt? Bob (and no, I don’t mean your retro-nazi Fearless Leader) knows that’s all the Libertarian Party has ever been good for.

By: Eric Sundwall

Eric Sundwall — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:57:37 +0000

“will eventually become frustrated and start seeing their opponents as stubborn idiots or as deliberately evil. This objectification can lead one to a superiority complex and the desire to use the apparatus of the law for one’s own advantage. This interplay is what we naively call democratic politics (when in fact the real interplay takes place at much higher levels and much less openly).”

Ok . . . I stopped at this part and want unwrap it a bit. Sorry if I didn’t read the whole thing.

Is it really so stark and apparent that frustration with supposed opponents yields a deliberate function and capacity to summarize others as stubborn idiots or evil ? Yeah, are these complexes so smitten with such irrefutable objectification ? Does own thus so obviously and successfully transmit that objectification into a practical application of law ? Do we see English common law as a the tool or Napoleonic Code ? Maybe some kind of rocker or mod code, post hypnotic punk perhaps ? Ah yes, it’s just a desire which need not necessarily apply, but when it might or does, we can cast a Pilate like disgust over the shoulder at that unclean thing called democracy. Which by the way is all done in smoke filled rooms . . . . but back to the complex mind you.

By: Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest July 5, 2009

Attack the System » Blog Archive » Updated News Digest July 5, 2009 — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:02:32 +0000

[...] The Superiority Complex from Francois Tremblay [...]

By: rob

rob — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:42:54 +0000

Man is neither good nor bad, man can be part of the herd in his makeup and can be manipulated by people with selfish agendas usually in the economic domain (to gain more land, wealth and power).

By: Francois Tremblay

Francois Tremblay — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:56:13 +0000

Apparently neither of you have read my entry, since none of your points actually apply. I never made any epistemic argument about certainty, I did already state that one is a parent by having sex which leads to birth, and I never said anything about commerce or ads.

Please try to actually read the entry before you criticize, people.

By: clusiau

clusiau — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:41:28 +0000

…In psychology, the superiority complex is a defense mechanism used to compensate for one’s perceived inferiority, a form of projection. This seems reasonable in this case also. After all, someone who actually does feel confident in the superiority of his beliefs should see no need to control others. ……

Très bon raisonnement mais j’espère que tu sais que cela ne s’applique pas dans le commerce. Personne ne pense que lorsque Coke affirme : “Y a rien comme un bon coke” que cette compagnie a un complexe de supériorité.
Se proclamer numéro uno, indispensable et Best in the World sont des façons de subtilement dénigrer les autres afin de vendre plus.
La supériorité vend, pas de doute.
Bonne journée.

By: George Donnelly

George Donnelly — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:28:35 +0000

So we should be certain about being uncertain. Seems like this tends toward a contradiction.

One’s a parent by dint of having sex? No, by dint of creating the life, by dint of the sex act resulting in a life.