Supremacy — whether painted in racial hues, religious banners, national flags, or even the smugness of intellectual elitism — is the metaphysical disease of our species. It is the conviction that my group, my tribe, my caste, my mental software configuration, is not merely different but somehow better, ordained, inevitable, the top rung on some imaginary ladder and that all other visions of tribe or the sacred are false, dangerous, or subordinate. This is not merely a potential theological position; it is a psychic enclosure, a wall built around the infinite to make it manageable, controllable, and ultimately usable as a weapon.
The trouble with this is, the ladder is a hallucination. Biology doesn’t operate on "supremacy," it operates on diversity. Evolution thrives on variety, mutation, and various oddball experiments. If one strand of life declared itself "supreme" and wanted to exterminate other aspects of itself, it would also be sawing off its own branches.
Supremacy as a mental program — let’s call it an ideological virus and spreads because it offers an easy, narcotic hit: "I’m more important because I was born into this group." It saves one the trouble of self-examination. But with a very high price of self oppression, ecological destruction, and a nervous system tuned more to fear and resentment than to joy or curiosity. From a third eye vantage, the whole thing is also a grotesque narrowing of the possible. The divine is not a one-language, one-costume performance; it is a vast, multiversal chorus. To claim that your tradition alone holds the truth is like staring at one star and declaring the rest of the night sky an illusion. The sacred is too big to fit into any single scripture without spilling over its edges.
The opposite of supremacy isn’t "inferiority" or "sameness." It’s mutuality, synergy — the recognition that no single perspective holds all the cards. When one lets go of supremacy, they gain the freedom to actually learn from a larger group chorus with a greater data set, rather than trying to hammer every anomaly into a pre-approved rigid hierarchy of suboptimal people always defending lies and corruption.
In short: supremacy is the error of confusing one reality-tunnel for the reality. It is mistaking your map for the territory, and then trying to burn all the other maps.