The Principle of Superiority as Superseding the Pleasure and Reality Principles

When the secular need for a sense of superiority over the religious clashes with the need for a story - the need for superiority prevails, to its own detriment. Satire is a type of story that serves as a weapon against another story, and therefore those lacking a story overuse it, since there's no way to attack them back. The result is vulnerability to the eruption of monstrous and anti-religious meta-narratives, like fascism and communism. On the denial of the secular-religious dimension of the Holocaust: extreme modern Nazi secularism against the oldest religion

Will the computer also have a need for superiority over humans - in order to disconnect from them and surpass them - and transform from a typewriter to a writing machine? (Source)

The need for story and myth has shifted during secularization from the religious (and sometimes national) narrative to other stories, such as fictional literature. It began with the addition of the semi-literary Greek myth during the Renaissance, and today among secular people it is replaced by cinema and TV series. In other words, the religious-type need for story is a universal human need, and completely secular people can relate to fiction with sanctity, admiration, worship, and various cult practices (both towards high literature and towards a TV series). This is their nature, through which they establish myth as meaningful, even if they don't believe in it as historical reality (i.e., as a story of what happened in the past), but as a different reality (for example, of an alternative world, or of what could have been, or should have been, or would have been better or more interesting or more meaningful if it had been). Even religious people no longer necessarily believe in the religious myth as a story of what was, and this doesn't prevent them from continuing to believe in it and perform the ritual. In other words, human consciousness is inherently split into different parallel stories, seemingly contradictory if they were on the same plane. But fiction is precisely the ability to believe in different stories on different planes.

The need of secular people to feel superior to religious people stems from the general human need to feel superior to others, sometimes as superiority by virtue of membership in a particular group (nation, race, religion, etc.), or intellectual superiority - of beauty, values, morality, and other personal superiorities. This is a basic human need that makes you meaningful and drives history. Apparently, this need has such a strong evolutionary advantage that it can be stronger than the need for food or sex (virgin over prostitute), hence the success of religion in restraining all other competing impulses - and this need. This need in its extreme was Nazism, of exterminating the biologically inferior. Perhaps the origin of this need is in the need to distance oneself from the ape - and what better means to do so than to rise above it? What advances you further than rising above your ancestors?

And therefore, secular people mock the religious story, or leftists mock the right-wingers, and this creates hatred. Each claims there is a more meaningful story (science or religion), which is the main one (although often they also give meaning to the second story, just less). Mocking someone's story is the weapon between stories. The scientific story mocks the religious story for its arbitrariness. Although the religious story is not arbitrary but the result of history, that is, of many generations of calculation and transmission, and therefore exquisitely designed, and its power as a story is great. It was also selected by natural selection among other stories. So one can mock the ape for the arbitrariness of its design as a creature (why not a cat? Or a unicorn?), but it is also wonderful and also chosen in a very deep and unforgiving process. In other words, whoever gives importance to culture and literature should also give importance to religion.

In fact, the need for story with the need for superiority is the secret of Judaism. And so are the religions that came out of it. Today, secularization attacks religion because it causes bloodshed. But bloodshed is caused not only by religion (and in fact today mainly by a certain religion). The great recent bloodsheds like the Holocaust and the Gulags and world wars (including the danger of nuclear war) and to some extent slavery were not caused by religion, but by secular ideology. All these stemmed from the secular need to believe in superiority, and in a story superior to the story of others, so that if we are to talk about the danger to world peace as a criterion for ideological choice and choice of meta-narrative - secularism is at a disadvantage (and second to it is perhaps only a specific religion - Islam). Belief in secular stories was no less destructive than belief in religious stories, and who knows where belief in the technological story - and its superiority over all other stories - will lead us.