The answer is stinkier than you thought it was! — In order to go “post-ego”, one must understand what “ego” is. You can’t give up smoking if you don’t know what a cigarette is, after all. In this article, we will see that ego has its source in a very surprising place — the potty. The house of your dreams When a young person comes…

And egotism less celebrated — Sure, in the golden age there was a guy named Socrates who went around teaching people how to use wisdom, how to use their minds to discern goodness, and to distinguish ignorant behavior from wise action. Nowadays, the idea that we should cultivate wisdom about our own being and place…

Spoiler alert! In the end the self turns out to be its own mother! — Yeah, just like Anthony Perkins in Psycho. The self was birthed by itself, and inhabited your brain in the same way Perkins inhabited the Bates Motel, going around trying to hide evidence of its crimes and hoping not to be caught. Well, I caught it in the act. It’s going…

By a more than two to one margin — Claim: The capitalist/socialist binary will collapse. A post-ego approach to economics and distribution of wealth is inevitable. But it won’t happen tomorrow. Here’s why: By about two to one, Americans prefer Capitalism to Socialism, according to Gallup. Even more telling, 97% of Americans are in favor of Free Enterprise. That is a little counterintuitive, as it seems to say that some people are in favor of both free enterprise and its opposite, a regulated…

Rising sea levels and increased temperatures are nothing compared to this — What keeps you up at night? Nuclear armageddon? “Each of these probabilities, by itself, is small. But taken together over a year’s time, they add up to a cumulative probability which is no longer small … Taken together over a century, they make nuclear war virtually inevitable.” That’s from a US government assessment a few years ago. Probably…

Wait a minute…what do you mean “senseless?” — I have seen with some frequency this heading, “senseless slaying,” in the true crime playground that Medium is becoming. A quick perusal of the internet search engines provides us with more than 25 thousand “senseless slayings.” The senseless slaying of: — an elderly Mount Dora couple. — a college dean …

The ego turns on a dime. But we don’t have to turn with it. — Our emotional state is really one of the only ways we have to evaluate how we’re doing. We can have a full bank account, for instance, but still feel like crap. So how are we doing in life? Not great, I would say. Out of the seven main realms of…

In Yuval Harare’s latest book he claims that human beings could not have “evolved a soul”, because that would imply that some children with souls were born from parents who didn’t have souls. But that of course is what evolution is. I like Harare, and was surprised that he made…

And it’s later than you think. (Watch the video at the bottom!) — The older we get, the faster it seems that time passes. That’s not a good thing, right? Because we know the destination of this runaway train. It’s hurtling faster and faster and faster to the edge of the abyss. If only we could slow it down. The Science of Time A study in Munich…