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This chapter illuminates how classism damages the psyche: breeding shame, superiority, resentment, and fear across all social groups. The author’s insight that the poor become victims of their own internalized inferiority is both painful and profound. The connection between cultural oppression and psychological paralysis, what Marimba Ani calls “the pacification of the will.” It shows that domination operates as much through belief as through force.