He read "The Quest for Superiority" ("Essays" came out last fall from Haymarket Books, of Chicago), about how we want to feel superior without feeling guilty, in a society where men "spin gold out of human suffering".
Pandora is uneasily overweight herself, since she is married to a thin, fit, superior-feeling bicyclist who has become "a nutritional Nazi".
CUD supporters tend to be Amharas from the superior-feeling north, bitterly resentful of the Tigrayans' lock on power; a quarter of Ethiopians are Amhara, while a bare 8%, including Mr Zenawi, are Tigrayan.The opposition can also be inflammatory over relations with Eritrea, which won independence from Ethiopia in 1993.
In the Effort-Reward Imbalance model, reward includes respect and support from work colleagues and superiors, the feeling of being treated fairly and/or promotion prospects, job security, and social status.
It gives us a jolt of outrage tinged with superiority every time we spot one, and feeling superior does the morale a power of good.
Whenever I get the question, "Are you making fun?" or if I'm being accused of feeling superior to the characters, it's usually by people who themselves feel superior to others.
It plays out eventually with the "help-er" feeling superior and powerful while the "help-ee" feels inferior and powerless.
"You like feeling superior," Con said, as they continued walking.
They are right to believe we have no grounds for feeling superior.
