How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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gestures ” without an underlying inclination to be useful constitute the superiority complex. The superiority complex betrays the underlying sense of inferiority in its possessor as ’surely as the brave whistling of a small boy in a dark alley betrays his fear. 6. Neurosis, crime, suicide, perversion, alcoholism, drug addiction, and fanaticism, and some forms of insanity, are false compensations for the inferiority complex. They represent a maximum of subjective power and a minimum of social responsibility. Their common denominators are fear, discourage¬ ment, and ignorance. They may be changed into socially useful compensations by enlightenment, encouragement and social adjustment. They bear the same relation to the fine art of living that doggerel bears to the poetry of Shakespeare, or a shanty to the Cathedral of Chartres. They are bad art. 7. Beware of the temptation to elevate a means into an end. When a tool becomes more important than the process for which it was designed, both tool and process are destroyed. If you would not use a bread-knife to do murder, do not use your thought process to solve the ineluctable problems of the cosmos. Above all, do not be deceived by the madness of some of your neighbours into believing that money will buy happiness.