At the very beginning of the bible - the fall of mankind - the expulsion of Adam and Eve comes about by the serpent tempting Eve with the promise that if she ate of the tree of Knowledge She would know as much as God and be like God.
This is the prime gambit - be better.
be better than your neighbour.
i'm upper class, i'm better than him (john cleese/barker/corbett sketch)
There's all sorts of ways to hammer this home but the most useful is the SUIT.
I were casual clothes every day and hate intensely dressing up in a suit. the tight shirt, the tie with it's promise of strangulation. the tight leather shoes. It's like a snake coiled around me. the last time I wore one. I had people open doors for me and people calling me Sir? Whit? All sort of respect? but I couldn't tell for what? Usually I'm very invisible and I like it that way.
All the time you'll see men in suits signing treaties and agreements(deals). If they graduate to the next level they wear Army Suits - uniforms. Hitler wasn't happy in a suit, moved up to the Army uniform. All the great dictators wear their army suit. It's even tighter and has ribbons on it.
if you want to know who's the dictator? it's the guy in the army uniform.
by saying you are better than others you are devaluing all of mankind. People become expendable. become a commodity. Value isn't about being better. It's in the being.
One woman I heard about was on the unemployment line for quite awhile. Bru scum? she's now one of the richest women in the UK. wrote some books about a magical school.
Royal Family all wearing their army suits from a previous century. Red Jacket, gold braid. medals? What's all the medals for? what wars were they in. What hills did they take? Like a Russian veteren with a hundred medals.
Royal Family all wearing their army suits from a previous century. Red Jacket, gold braid. medals? What's all the medals for? what wars were they in. What hills did they take? Like a Russian veteren with a hundred medals.