This is one of those things that made it into pop psychology because it’s so consistently true. The people who scream the loudest that they are superior due to some accident of birth are indeed usually overcompensating for some crucial flaw. They have to believe they are superior to cover for some dark or dirty secret, much like a virulent zealot of any other strain. So it actually stems from an inferiority complex. They worry about not being good enough more than is sane.

Over time, observing people like this in the U.S. and here in Israel, I’ve come to see it as an indicator of extreme perversion…and I do mean extreme. I’ve never seen someone going overboard in this way who wasn’t into or involved in something really harmful. It’s like part of the scratch.