But superbia is more insidious than mere pride. It’s not rooted in accomplishment so much as it is preoccupied by the selfness of the self and the otherness of others. Sinners in the hands of superbia establish their own experience as the baseline by which all others must be judged, and anyone who fails to achieve that baseline is typecast as inferior—and not just inferior but freakishly so. It’s wrong not to be how I am. It’s senseless not to have come to the understanding that I have. It’s ridiculous