The Natural Way To Disguise An Inferiority Complex

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Humans are so adaptable

and they have

the capability of  speech 

that declares as much.

But all species are adaptable 

and have some form of speech.

What singles out humans

is the need to state, 

through their vaulted powers of speech,

their undeniable superiority

to all other species. 

This is what some psychologists call

"an indelible sign of an inferiority complex."

Consider the rush hour commuter 

whose car is moving

less than one mile an hour

then looks up to a sky 

full of birds flying free-form 

with no bottle-necked

lanes of flight:

Ask that bottle-necked commuter

which is the superior species.

The commuter would ultimately say

"But has any bird ever created

a printing press or a computer?"

The answer is no bird has ever had 

a need to invent such things.

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PAUL OLIVERIO

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Footnotes

THE NATURAL WAY

TO DISGUISE AN INFERIORITY COMPLEX

is the copyrighted property

of LCSoL

This page was originally written
—with format intact—

as the first chapter of

GodFather of Math, The Novel

But I am not ready to provide

a link to that chapter

  😥

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