The unfair elitism, a pathology

The superiority complex

An instinctive segregation

Elitism is a disease that mankind has not yet declared as such. Jean Marc Tonizzo

Shown against : 1957 . The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted to the school, she could not bear the harassment more than 4 days .

Elitism is a state of mind. It has a positive side and a negative side . In its negative version, it says at the expense of others to hoard privileges . In this case, it is simply a superiority complex .

According to Alfred Adler ( 1933 Meaning of Life ) superiority complex mask an inferiority complex underlying. It reveals exaggerated claims, the boasting, bluster, contempt for others, the need to attend higher-ups, order weak ... Lack of sense of community the subject seeks compensation for his sense of inferiority by developing its aggressiveness to dominate others, it attacks people . The will to power can lead to delinquency, crime, the most serious form is in paranoia, delusions of persecution subject, full of good intentions but its value is not known . ( Internet source ) ..

To distinguish themselves from the people and abusing this unfair elitism is based on primary concepts . Concepts such as social origin, material wealth, holding power ... These superiorities nicknames derived actually some primate instincts * roughly humanized .

* selfishness, domination and subordination, hoarding privileges.

The sense of superiority and a sense of vocation. It is necessary for human evolution. But he comes in contradiction with the spiritual values of mankind. For our species indeed, education, ethics, law and spirit of the people, tend towards equality.

The real superiority

The holy summit

Humanity is evolving toward greater humanity.

Human behavior is a part of its genesis in the primate instincts. Impulses of domination, aggression, abuse congener, make party. Humanity is evolving and this evolution follows a logic. Following this logic, man, it seems to me, at the expense of humanity make this more human conscious and not the reverse. We have a duty to push back the primary drives in favor of human values ​​. Still following this sense, the actual superiority of a man would be proportional to his humility. It flows from the ability to put into practice the great universal values ​​. *

* Desire to share, respect for others, love of neighbor, a sense of equality, compassion, altruism, love of sharing ...

The individual could then say "higher" should be the one that best control the supreme values ​​.

Only, and it is a wonderful paradoxes of evolution, a being "humanely" higher and its superiority complex is reduced. The more an individual is human ( the spiritual sense) and his desire to segregation and elitism, regress in favor of a sense of equality. It then becomes a benevolent elite. Careful eminence to the plight of the poorest and most abused . It is for the good of the greatest number and the great march toward equality. He became an example for humanity as were Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Father Pedro, Father Puglisi . The superiority complex of discriminating elite is therefore not superiority but rather a disadvantage.

We can say that for human evolution, any man who claims ontologically superior to another is necessarily lower than that considered his equal.

2001