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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.
