THREAD: Supremacy is a pathology.
It occurs when a person has encountered hardship and, whether that hardship comes from a separate malevolent actor, can be traced back to their own actions, or is the result of both, the person begins to believe in a story ("conspiracy") that can explain away such hardship.
The grand narrative is easily adopted because it's explanatory and because it replaces the chaos of life with certainty as well as with a quasi-heroic mission. (And all men need some measure of certainty and sense of purpose to go on with their lives.)
The grand narrative is outward facing, not inward-facing since facing inward is both harder to do and would inconveniently undermine the narrative. It empowers men to overcompensate for their own insecurities instead of keeping them in check;
it empowers them to project their lived experience onto everyone else, & allows for them to become heroes in their own eyes by fighting against "The Man" without realizing that the character traits of "The Man" they desperately seek to fight are coursing through their own veins.
(This blindspot produces the "otherizing" that supremacists fall prey to so easily.)
In order to overcome the pathology, you need an alternative grand narrative that teaches men that imperfection is a part of life, that hardship will come as it always does, and that in the words of Jay Z, people are living through "different dimensions of the same reality."
Despite its negative reviews, this was what the film 'Crash' was fundamentally trying to get at.
Culturally, you need to make the internalization of this alternative grand narrative *the* Hero's journey.
Culturally, you need to make the internalization of this alternative grand narrative *the* Hero's journey.
So much mayhem is a product of man's attempt to turn the chaos of his life into order. Ironically, so much senselessness has come from man's attempt to turn turmoil into something that makes sense and has meaning.
