As long as you’re confused about who you are as a person and what your role in this world is, I don’t think you can avoid playing these silly games… what else do you have, right? If you can’t feel like part of a larger whole with greater meaning, you might want to feel superior and special in all sorts of superficial ways (because if you were a deeper, wiser human being you wouldn’t entertain this, you’d just do what you think you have to do in this world regardless of optics).
As long as you’re confused about who you are as a person and what your role in this world is, I don’t think you can avoid playing these silly games… what else do you have, right? If you can’t feel like part of a larger whole with greater meaning, you might want to feel superior and special in all sorts of superficial ways (because if you were a deeper, wiser human being you wouldn’t entertain this, you’d just do what you think you have to do in this world regardless of optics).