The Good Word for Ego Props · How We Corrupt & Capitalize
⁘ “Someone comes up with an insight. Not on the market yet. "This should be shared." Then it's hijacked to advance your ego. No longer in service of the insight itself. It becomes a vehicle for you to distinguish yourself. With this corruption of priorities, it becomes a forced process, not in reflection of the environment's needs and calling. ”
Someone comes up with an insight.
Psychological, spiritual, existential, what have you.
And looking at the world out there,
they see that it's not on the market yet.
And a drive arises, this should be shared.
Then in no time at all,
this insight is hijacked to advance your ego.
Where you no longer engage in service of the insight itself,
and of the collective that would benefit from your insight.
Instead that insight becomes a vehicle, a medium
for you to distinguish yourself, to assert your identity.
And with this corruption of priorities,
everything turns into a painful drag.
Because it's no longer an organic process,
where the environment either has the need for that insight, or not,
and where you provide it, or not,
in reflection of the environment.
But it's rather about your personal need to push out the message
and to hear back affirmations of yourself
as the originator of the message.
To level you up in your own perception,
to help your ego grow.