We learned of local foods, leaping salmon, signature restaurants, street-food battles, even Seattle’s inferiority complex — they’ve all been here before, though sometimes in different forms.

Mr. Helm might have also possessed, he writes, “a country-boy inferiority complex.”

Walesa speculated that Jaroslaw’s turn against the liberal post-Communist consensus arose from “an inferiority complex,” a massive chip on Kaczynski’s shoulder.