I once read a joke describing the inferiority complex facilitating social equilibrium. A journalist had ended up in Hell. He looked around and saw great bonfires with big pots placed on top, one pot for each ideology in which people were boiling. Demons stood guard beside each pot, so no one could escape from them. Except, no guards stood by the collectivist pot. Thinking this was odd, he sought advice from the Devil and asked, “Why is the collectivist pot the only pot without guards?” The Devil replied, “No need for them! Should anyone try to pull themselves up, their fellow citizens will make sure to pull them back down again.”