Serious question for everyone. Lets say there are two guys. Guy 1 is charismatic, articulate, insightful, witty, funny and popular. Guy 2 is shy, awkward, dumb, cliche, boring and unpopular. If these two guys ever get into a fight and Guy 1 starts arguing that he is just straight up better than Guy 2 in every way, how exactly is Guy 2 supposed to defend his dignity?

This is exactly the situation I've been in numerous times when I was younger and my brother would maliciously attack me in this way. I believe I was chronically traumatized by this. Over the years my brother has matured and now he seems to show me more compassion instead of contempt. But I believe he is narcissistic and still has it in him to revert back to his old self. I believe he is mellow now because I do not really get into fights with him and because he does not feel threatened by me anymore (in the past, despite our relative social positions, he did envy me for reasons I don't completely understand). I essentially cannot trust him to be superior to me in the eyes of society. As long as this is the case, I do not feel comfortable around him and we can never have a normal brotherly relationship. My mom senses that things aren't normal between us and she is concerned by it. However, she is incapable of understanding the effect he has had on me and why it matters. She comes from a culture where their thinking is very primitive and they don't understand complex psychological concepts.