It's funny how they marry a deep anti-intellectualism with a desperate need to have an intellectual veneer.
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It's almost like that's exactly the expected outcome of an unacknowledged lack of covert self-esteem.
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I sometimes have to stop and wonder how many forms of social compensation being insufferably arrogant in some areas has actually saved me from.
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If anything, I've started developing issues with a superiority complex after realizing how much of my old ideas were just cocky young bluster.
It's *now* I have to stop myself from trying to sound cleverer than I think I am, not before. Before I just thought I was that smart. ;)
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That's a knowledge chart. I'm talking abilities. I've never thought I was an expert on anything.
I was used to interacting with people of middling/low ability. Gave me an inflated sense of my own.
This has since been brutally remedied, but I do still find the occasional bug.
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I've always had confidence in my abilities, but it's long been married to a crippling inability to commit to anything long-term, make new habits, or market myself.
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It's led to a somewhat fatalistic but also empowering desire to just keep being myself, not try to adapt to neoliberalism, and wait for the environment to catch up.
But that also induces a superiority complex I've had to constantly recognise and temper, lest I grow resentful.
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IME, resentment is located more on the level of deprecated self-worth. Then, that gives you an excuse for adopting a superior attitude.
Of course, it's also a feedback loop with few breakers, so...
But really, a superiority complex is an a priori sign of resentment.
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And that's all the maybe-useful things I have to say about that.
I have my own issues managing resentment, and few solutions of much merit other than "temper your expectations w/time and practice"...
Which is shit advice for any number of circumstances.