Control - Affirming Control, Bringing Others Down

Insecurity, and not just like the pedantic term, like really feeling insecure is terrifying. And out of that place we start to want to assert ourselves, shore up safety. We can have a leg up, or control, or even just put people in t o boxes so we understand what box we fit into,. A box we don't fit into. It's this kind of horizontal competitiveness that's coming out of fear. This might not seem related, but i think we see a little of this in the liturgical back and forth over the years, a movement toward kind of imminence in the liturgy versus transcendents.