satisfying man's ego
Everybody needs to feel useful, considered, and having an importance in the society in which he is. This will make him a better man and make the society as a whole a more productive one.
Feeling useful or needed is a basic need if man wants to live fully and un-diminished.
This need to be useful may be the emotional counterpart of every man's never validated "instinct" about his unique potential for "everything", in whatever environment, country, continent, planet or galaxy he is in.
A small group of humans on any planet in any galaxy can be considered by the universe as the most precious elements on that planet or in that galaxy. All the potentials to understand, discover and eventually manipulate the elements of the universe are in us ... in our collective.
Unluckily, the consciousness of each man's own real value as an abstract being who can "remodel" his own nature and blow up the limits of any knowledge given time and proper environment, is not yet validated by any system, past or present, but rather the contrary.
Being together with the same exceptionality on one planet has made us consider this exceptionality as common, and choose to consider or even invent ways to "sort" each other according to totally insignificant, petty, counter-productive, diminishing and chance-caused differences amongst ourselves. Furthermore, these criteria, which we have blindly accepted, were even made to be the will of a creator...
It serves no purpose to put into competition man's real value as an abstract being with each other. Man's abstract mind does not grow by competition, but only by cooperation; Only a positive interaction with other abstract minds makes an abstract mind grow wiser.
Each and every one has the potential to be so valuable to all of us, all of the living and the cosmos, that it is tragic to invent these diminishing relative standards of evaluation which transform man's real true value to an artificial relative value.
Using our minds to find ways of increasing our artificial relative values will cause an eternally unsatisfied ego, the un-satisfaction resulting from the ego being forbidden to express itself in the way his abstract mind has tailored it to.
The human ego is tailored for exceptional feats, or grand accomplishments involving humanity and life; all children want to "be heroes" and "save the world", "save the animals", "save the forests", ...
Growing older, the scarcity of life crushes the hero in our excuisite child, and forces him to compensate by substitutes, which are nothing more than our diminishing and artificial standards of relative evaluation.
Our beautiful child who wanted to save the world, save us, the animals, the trees, every kind of life, is forced by scarcity to consider success in acquiring scarcities (even at the expense of those whom he wanted to save), as being an ingenious, grand accomplishment...
Our beautiful child who wanted to be a hero by engaging in something big, in something transgressing his individual self, to save as much as he can, ends up trying to have as much as he can, desperately trying to be at least the hero of his own story.
All of us live this tragedy of our species.
We lose all our heroes, all our saviors, all our best, to our damn enemy: Scarcity.
Ask your ego to rememder...
Ask your ego what would really satisfy it...
Would your ego be satisfied by anything short of a great feat of individual or collective ingenuity that makes life better for all men, even when you realize that you had no merit, that you were simply lucky?
I know that nobody ever needs a justification for his existence.
But we all know that man has always searched for a purpose and a justification for his existence.
Why is that, if not to satisfy his self-awareness?
Aren't self-awareness and ego intricately related in relation to "I am"?
To what degree would a great purpose fitting only for man, justify man's existence, and satisfy his ego?
Could there be a greater justification and a greater purpose for a man's existence than being an integral part of the greatest human endeavor ever: ending scarcity and ignorance, changing all the rules of his current diminished existence, having anything he desires and having a life he always wanted to have, and with time, even giving birth to the man he always wanted to be as the "immortal" consciousness of the universe?
Now how far would that go to satisfy man's ego?
We can never tell for the far future, but here and now, being part of the greatest human endeavor is what will satisfy man's ego, even the most super-massive. Anything else, which will always be a pale substitute undoubtedly having something to do with greed, will keep every man's ego unsatisfied and looking for more, or more of the same...
Whatever demands "more and more" at the expense of others, is a characteristic created in us by the scarcity of our environment.
The more we are victims of scarcity, the more we focus on substitute trivialities that only exist as "more and more".
The pale substitute is an idiotic occupation that gives man a useless sense of importance and "misguides" his ego which will become impossible to satisfy (like addiction) even when he gets to the peak of his delusional state of "personal importance and worth".
And the worst part is that instead of the pale alternative granting satisfaction and gratification for his ego, it will only grant the "curse" of addiction and dependence... very difficult to overcome.
By promoting idiotic occupations of pale alternatives, man is being drawn further and further away from his real self, and living by diminished and diminishing standards.
It is like magicians who could have the satisfaction of creating tons of food from thin air with which to feed not only starving farmers, but also the farm animals and even pets just by moving their wands, but unaware of what they could accomplish with their wands, still go and take the little food there is in each other's or the starving farmers' houses, and feel proud and superior for being able to take...
Man can transform any limitedness to abundance by not much of an effort, but unaware of what he can do, he continues to play the diminishing and twisted game of "personal relative worth".
Our mistrust in ourselves, our mistrust in our capacities, and our very short lives will always diminish us by creating haste for these trivial substitutes.
It is time for man to listen to his real ego, created and structured by the greatest achievement of the universe (his mind).
Both mentally and psychologically, man is uniquely tailored for nothing but great accomplishments.
All the trivial substitutes like "relative personal values" will create a vicious circle of "more and more" because being substitutes, they will never satisfy his need, just decieve him into thinking that maybe "more" will do...
But substitutes never satisfy REAL NEEDS do they?
Substitutes are created by searching for his true place, hinted by the semi-conscious knowledge of that greatness residing within him, but failing...
Humans think if they are rich, they will be happier.
They might or might not, because everybody, whatever his economic prosperity, has the same deformation of comparing himself to others at his level, impressing others with acquisitions, without realizing that He or She, even all alone, is so precious for the cosmos, that these comparisons among ourselves are tragic and far beneath our category...
Everybody is on different levels of this comparative, de-formative loop, being greedy and miserable, without daring to break free and do what is really in tune with his true but not-yet-admitted aspirations.
Only Humanity's greatest endeavor ever can fill the hole in our individual egos that we have tried so hard to fill with substitutes, and induce in us the characteristic "fullness" that satisfies to the full our sense of purpose.
This sense of purpose that fully satisfies the human ego will also transform humanity to a better humanity without adversity for scarcities which will exist no more as "scarcities" but as abundance, even free abundance.
And humanity, given time, will discover and find the reasons and mechanisms of everything he finds miraculous, which will lose nothing of their marvel and poetry, but the contrary, will still be more miraculous, like our growing sentiment of marvel following our growing knowledge of the first mono-cellular living organisms miraculously containing in themselves the infinite forms of development from earth worms to dinosaures...
If you consider all this as impractical dreaming, ask researchers in all and every domain, what can the outcome of a planetary commitment to science be, then sit back and enjoy the poetry of all your dreams coming true, affirmed by the only people who have the answer.
Here, to conclude the chapter on greed and satisfying our ego, some powerful lines come to my mind, lines that will echo as long as there are humans to hear:
The lines are from Vahan Tekeian, a humane mind so powerful, that even genocide could not intimidate:
"What remained? ... What did remain of my life ...?
That, which I gave freely ... strange ... only that ..."
I guess these lines define a gigantic "loser"...
Winners take freely, don't they ..
.
Feeling useful or needed is a basic need if man wants to live fully and un-diminished.
This need to be useful may be the emotional counterpart of every man's never validated "instinct" about his unique potential for "everything", in whatever environment, country, continent, planet or galaxy he is in.
A small group of humans on any planet in any galaxy can be considered by the universe as the most precious elements on that planet or in that galaxy. All the potentials to understand, discover and eventually manipulate the elements of the universe are in us ... in our collective.
Unluckily, the consciousness of each man's own real value as an abstract being who can "remodel" his own nature and blow up the limits of any knowledge given time and proper environment, is not yet validated by any system, past or present, but rather the contrary.
Being together with the same exceptionality on one planet has made us consider this exceptionality as common, and choose to consider or even invent ways to "sort" each other according to totally insignificant, petty, counter-productive, diminishing and chance-caused differences amongst ourselves. Furthermore, these criteria, which we have blindly accepted, were even made to be the will of a creator...
It serves no purpose to put into competition man's real value as an abstract being with each other. Man's abstract mind does not grow by competition, but only by cooperation; Only a positive interaction with other abstract minds makes an abstract mind grow wiser.
Each and every one has the potential to be so valuable to all of us, all of the living and the cosmos, that it is tragic to invent these diminishing relative standards of evaluation which transform man's real true value to an artificial relative value.
Using our minds to find ways of increasing our artificial relative values will cause an eternally unsatisfied ego, the un-satisfaction resulting from the ego being forbidden to express itself in the way his abstract mind has tailored it to.
The human ego is tailored for exceptional feats, or grand accomplishments involving humanity and life; all children want to "be heroes" and "save the world", "save the animals", "save the forests", ...
Growing older, the scarcity of life crushes the hero in our excuisite child, and forces him to compensate by substitutes, which are nothing more than our diminishing and artificial standards of relative evaluation.
Our beautiful child who wanted to save the world, save us, the animals, the trees, every kind of life, is forced by scarcity to consider success in acquiring scarcities (even at the expense of those whom he wanted to save), as being an ingenious, grand accomplishment...
Our beautiful child who wanted to be a hero by engaging in something big, in something transgressing his individual self, to save as much as he can, ends up trying to have as much as he can, desperately trying to be at least the hero of his own story.
All of us live this tragedy of our species.
We lose all our heroes, all our saviors, all our best, to our damn enemy: Scarcity.
Ask your ego to rememder...
Ask your ego what would really satisfy it...
Would your ego be satisfied by anything short of a great feat of individual or collective ingenuity that makes life better for all men, even when you realize that you had no merit, that you were simply lucky?
I know that nobody ever needs a justification for his existence.
But we all know that man has always searched for a purpose and a justification for his existence.
Why is that, if not to satisfy his self-awareness?
Aren't self-awareness and ego intricately related in relation to "I am"?
To what degree would a great purpose fitting only for man, justify man's existence, and satisfy his ego?
Could there be a greater justification and a greater purpose for a man's existence than being an integral part of the greatest human endeavor ever: ending scarcity and ignorance, changing all the rules of his current diminished existence, having anything he desires and having a life he always wanted to have, and with time, even giving birth to the man he always wanted to be as the "immortal" consciousness of the universe?
Now how far would that go to satisfy man's ego?
We can never tell for the far future, but here and now, being part of the greatest human endeavor is what will satisfy man's ego, even the most super-massive. Anything else, which will always be a pale substitute undoubtedly having something to do with greed, will keep every man's ego unsatisfied and looking for more, or more of the same...
Whatever demands "more and more" at the expense of others, is a characteristic created in us by the scarcity of our environment.
The more we are victims of scarcity, the more we focus on substitute trivialities that only exist as "more and more".
The pale substitute is an idiotic occupation that gives man a useless sense of importance and "misguides" his ego which will become impossible to satisfy (like addiction) even when he gets to the peak of his delusional state of "personal importance and worth".
And the worst part is that instead of the pale alternative granting satisfaction and gratification for his ego, it will only grant the "curse" of addiction and dependence... very difficult to overcome.
By promoting idiotic occupations of pale alternatives, man is being drawn further and further away from his real self, and living by diminished and diminishing standards.
It is like magicians who could have the satisfaction of creating tons of food from thin air with which to feed not only starving farmers, but also the farm animals and even pets just by moving their wands, but unaware of what they could accomplish with their wands, still go and take the little food there is in each other's or the starving farmers' houses, and feel proud and superior for being able to take...
Man can transform any limitedness to abundance by not much of an effort, but unaware of what he can do, he continues to play the diminishing and twisted game of "personal relative worth".
Our mistrust in ourselves, our mistrust in our capacities, and our very short lives will always diminish us by creating haste for these trivial substitutes.
It is time for man to listen to his real ego, created and structured by the greatest achievement of the universe (his mind).
Both mentally and psychologically, man is uniquely tailored for nothing but great accomplishments.
All the trivial substitutes like "relative personal values" will create a vicious circle of "more and more" because being substitutes, they will never satisfy his need, just decieve him into thinking that maybe "more" will do...
But substitutes never satisfy REAL NEEDS do they?
Substitutes are created by searching for his true place, hinted by the semi-conscious knowledge of that greatness residing within him, but failing...
Humans think if they are rich, they will be happier.
They might or might not, because everybody, whatever his economic prosperity, has the same deformation of comparing himself to others at his level, impressing others with acquisitions, without realizing that He or She, even all alone, is so precious for the cosmos, that these comparisons among ourselves are tragic and far beneath our category...
Everybody is on different levels of this comparative, de-formative loop, being greedy and miserable, without daring to break free and do what is really in tune with his true but not-yet-admitted aspirations.
Only Humanity's greatest endeavor ever can fill the hole in our individual egos that we have tried so hard to fill with substitutes, and induce in us the characteristic "fullness" that satisfies to the full our sense of purpose.
This sense of purpose that fully satisfies the human ego will also transform humanity to a better humanity without adversity for scarcities which will exist no more as "scarcities" but as abundance, even free abundance.
And humanity, given time, will discover and find the reasons and mechanisms of everything he finds miraculous, which will lose nothing of their marvel and poetry, but the contrary, will still be more miraculous, like our growing sentiment of marvel following our growing knowledge of the first mono-cellular living organisms miraculously containing in themselves the infinite forms of development from earth worms to dinosaures...
If you consider all this as impractical dreaming, ask researchers in all and every domain, what can the outcome of a planetary commitment to science be, then sit back and enjoy the poetry of all your dreams coming true, affirmed by the only people who have the answer.
Here, to conclude the chapter on greed and satisfying our ego, some powerful lines come to my mind, lines that will echo as long as there are humans to hear:
The lines are from Vahan Tekeian, a humane mind so powerful, that even genocide could not intimidate:
"What remained? ... What did remain of my life ...?
That, which I gave freely ... strange ... only that ..."
I guess these lines define a gigantic "loser"...
Winners take freely, don't they ..
.