Ego
7:34 PM - Ego
Current mood: 
contemplative
Category: Life
It’s funny. I’m sitting here on a Monday afternoon…..St. Patrick’s Day…..all is quiet after delivering my roomie to the Urgent Care facility and all I can think about is this unfortunate election that is on the horizon.
It saddens me. There was a brief time when I thought a choice between Al Gore and George Dubya Bush was the worst thing that could possibly happen. There was. Briefly. Until now.
Mind you, I’m fully anticipating a complete and total thrashing by those of you who are mesmerized and entranced by these savage and mindless clowns who are competing in this circus called Election 2008. I know you’re out there. I know you’re going to read this and the temptation to reply to this and completely ridicule my stance on the subject is going to be far too great to overcome. I accept that. And others of you who are as sick to your stomach as I am will come on here rejoicing in sorrowful song with me. I accept that too. But it changes nothing.
What I wonder is how many people are going to vote for a candidate, not out of love for said candidate, but out of spite for the opponent. And this is the sad reality……that we can produce NOTHING to challenge the empty black soul that will ultimately win this thing in the name of power and greed. Is there not one amongst us who is charismatic enough……honorable enough……and intelligent enough to deliver us from the darkness of expanded government and imposed morality into a light of prosperity? Not one amongst us who has the will and the good, not of the majority, but, rather, of our reality as human beings to stand strong against the growing tide of Kantian philosophy, hedonism and excess?
In conjunction with this forthcoming election, there are events and actions I have seen in my work that have brought a principle to mind. And I just need to get it out there…….bear with me……you might like this one……
Many people will say that ego is the downfall of man. And, to an extent, I would almost agree. But then it dawned on me. It’s not the fact that the ego exists……the ego is natural……a product of our existence as rational and intellectual beings. The problems arise when one’s ego becomes larger than the process they’re involved with. Be it politics, careers, relationships……this applies to everything. Look at divorce rates. I say this. And, again, I’ll probably be burned at the stake for saying such a thing…….but our egos have gotten so inflated that they overshadow everything we were trying to achieve.
I remain optimistic that, as with every fluctuation in the flow of the universe, there will be a reverse trend. There was light (relative) at the end of the Dark Ages. And there will be light again at the end of this time. But why are we so resistant to what should be obvious?
I have had intelligent human beings denounce science….science as a full and complete entity…….because science is not aligned with the tenets of Christianity. It pains me. Not that they don’t agree with me. Rare are two human beings whose belief systems are perfectly in sync. Rather, because they are intelligent enough to create, build and grow businesses and fortunes, yet they don’t allow themselves the capacity to open to very real and tangible possibilities.
And this is why we’re stuck in a cess pool of election mediocrity. Not ego in itself. But ego that is larger than the process.
Can we change it?