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The Parasitic Ego
Societies need to be built upon a solid foundation, and in order to do that people need to be nurtured from the roots. Any system that is put in to place will eventually corrupt and fall to pieces unless the people that compose that system become more in tune with their natural environment and let go of whatever it is they’re constantly fighting against. The constant fighting and struggling is not due to any perceived external source but is that of our own mind, a psychological disease. This disease is repression and it manifests as a continuous struggle between the ego (what we use to survive, our fight vs flight instinct) and the true self, the unconscious mind, the real director.
Repression is anything we don’t want to accept about ourselves or our world and repressing different parts of who we are leads to a conflict between our ego and unconscious mind. The ego is a lesser psychological parasite that feeds on fear and hatred, it is necessary only when our safety is in jeopardy and it is when this survival instinct completely takes over our perception and personality that we experience most of the conflict that we see in individual human beings and societies.
Our unconscious mind directly or indirectly determines 90% of our actions and it is that which we are denying within our unconscious mind due to the parasitic ego, that finds it’s outlet by lashing out at any supposed external “threat” (people, animals, opposing symbols of belief) and it is these supposed external threats that are simply a symbolic interpretation of that which we deny within ourselves in the first place..
The over-developed ego is projecting disharmony and interpersonal conflict in to the community and relationships around us acting as a sort of cancer engulfing ourselves and the Earth. Collective repression, the “ego”, is an unspoken unconscious code which allows people to align with each other to form groups and communities that are by their very nature predatory, which then mobilize against other groups and communities (to whom repress different things and act as an emotional catalyst for one another) It is THIS, the OVER-developed ego, that is the root of all war and conflict.
We depend on one another in order to function as individuals and groups but it is also this PROGRAMMED dependence rather then sustainable INTER-dependence that causes most problems within society and the environment. It is much more beneficial, for both the individual and the group, to be more inter-dependant. To be psychologically healthy and practically self sustained before we project our energy in to the network around us. This is possible and has been achieved at earlier times in our history, however the communities that achieved these states were much smaller and more isolated from one another, with much less destructive technology.
Balancing our psyche is absolutely necessary, especially at our current state- with such a densely over-populated and technologically advanced civilization we have the potential to either completely destroy or drastically improve our environment and which occurs depends largely on our psychological development as individuals. A collective is only a mirror reflection of it’s parts.
Similarities in what we repress act as a “collective unconsciousness” within a group and the collective ego (A phrase I’ve coined) represents a repository of SPOKEN values. Both of these act as a morale compass in dealing with other groups of differing values and is essentially why you are irritated by those that disagree or represent something other then what you believe to be “right” and why you are so attracted to people with similar values. This is also what allows groups to communicate on an unconscious level in order to deal with external threats to their collective identity. Unfortunately when all of the individuals within that group have overdeveloped egos, this creates a collective that is by it’s very nature predatory, and oppositional rather then co-operative
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/08/the-parasitic-ego/
