If I had to point out one of the main problems with our society, I'd direct people's attention to any of the charity organizations that are common today. Why? Because I believe they represent an accurate, institutionalized model of the kind of behaviour that has taken over the political fabric of our society.

Charity organizations are made out of people who are typically insecure and underconfident in themselves. Therefore they feel good whenever they help others, especially people worse off than themselves, because it makes them feel needed, important and special. While charity might seem like a fancy act, it rarely solves any problems (make a trip to Africa) - but most importantly, it easily becomes a tool for these neurotic people to overpower smart and confident people.

To demonstrate this, let me give you an example. Imagine you're an intelligent, experienced boss at a company. Say you need to hire new people for an upcoming project. Most likely you'd pick only the best; class A people. Now, say you were a "normal" - a class B individual; not very bright but not outright dumb. Here you'd probably hire class C people. Why? Besides having a mediocre judgement, you'd feel good by bossing around with someone less intelligent than yourself, which would make up for your own shortcomings. Idiots promote idiots to power. The further down you go on the intellectual and intelligence scale, the fewer the merits will be.

The danger here lies in the psychological behaviour of most underconfident people: they don't see the world in positive aspects and look for brilliance, certainty and victory. The only way they feel happy is by promoting people below them to their own level or attacking people above them and forcing them to conform to a lower common denominator. It's a vicious cycle that's struck most of our society. It's in politics, where we mock all intelligent dissidents, it's in culture, where we've lost the collective will to achieve something positive together, and it's a chronic disease that inflicts our spirit.

Permanent underconfidence is a resignation before life and a lack of belief in our abilities, talents and features. People who should know better are today crippled by this modern downfall. It might even struck otherwise healthy and intelligent individuals, who realize that the underconfident segment of our population has taken over and will drive us into more world wars and ecological disasters, before we learn the hard lesson. It's a tough realization to make for anyone that's even remotely awake in our society of brainnumb sleepwalkers.

But there is hope. We can rise above this crowd behaviour. The way to do this is to tie personal self-confidence with positive abilities. Do what you're good at and your successes, even if small in the beginning, will make you feel more powerful and your life more meaningful. Likewise, look at the world from a constructive, heroic perspective: neither of us are determined to fail. We can succeed with who we are and what we've got here and now. That's how the ancients dealt with situations like these and we can do the same. We must purge all fatalism and underconfidence from our societal fabric - and this change, as all true change, starts within ourselves. Change your life!