Hoffer wrote: “When we are conscious of our worthlessness, we naturally expect others to be finer and better than we are. If then we discover any similarity between them and us, we see it as irrefutable evidence of their worthlessness and inferiority. It is thus that with some people familiarity breeds contempt.” What is Creator’s perspective?

Here we see a corollary to what we have discussed with you about the weak punishing the weak as an inherent destiny that becomes inevitable, because the weak will see that ability to manipulate and harm others as perhaps the only path to greater strength within themselves, when in fact they are lowering themselves to an even greater degree than those they are judging as weak and deserving of mistreatment. So what Hoffer is describing here is simply one of the consequences and routine scenarios that will play out in a world of weaklings trying to cope and find something for themselves when they are largely disconnected from the flow of love, cannot value anything about themselves, and resent anyone who seems to have a greater share of happiness, in particular. They will be resented and then hated and, at an extreme, attacked. This is a strong characteristic within those who are disconnected from the flow of love. That is what brings about weakness to begin with, it is the inability to love oneself or love others that causes separation, inefficiency, inadequacies of all kinds, and failure, to appear. That becomes self-reinforcing as a cycle of downward spiraling into worsening of the life and can become intolerable. While some people might turn to suicide if things get bad enough, others might choose, perversely, as a way of fighting back, striking out against those who seem like themselves, who they perhaps have looked to for support or guidance but find them to have feet of clay when their weakness becomes apparent, and then the self-hatred will spill over into a desire to lash out at others who are weak and a disappointment. It is a desperate and completely misguided attempt to serve the self. Anything gained at the expense of others will be a Pyrrhic victory because the spoils eventually will be taken away by the Law of Karma, and then some, so it is a tragic and sometimes fatal error to harm others.