The assault on the ego
The assault on the ego has many guises
All are futile and wrong-headed
even though the heads the perorations come from
are good and verified in the world
They may be recondite shrinks or Wayne Dyer striding with his little hat
Everyone needs a trademark
But does everyone need a scapegoat to deal with our spectrum nature
without acknowledging what it is or how it works
C. S. Peirce understood
The fellow at Riggs who wrote about moving beyond the dyad understood
But the sort of writing that blames the ego persists as does the binary thinking that underlies it
Roberto Assagioli and Ken Wilber also understood
What we call the ego is a fiction and cannot be separated from who we are in toto
Good and evil are also a fiction though consequences are very real and negative consequences do not stem from what is called the ego but from decisions that are generally conscious or nearly so
Consequences that hurt and harm are evil by any name we wish to use
They result from allegiance to what we call selfishness which is a diminution of the self
Have I said enough?
