I don’t have a simple answer for you. Once someone is trapped by their ego, breaking free is incredibly difficult—like a butterfly caught in a glass jar. This is why rehabilitating certain types of criminals is nearly impossible. I wrote about my own experience of dismantling my ego by cutting off all external validation. The pain was so…
I don’t have a simple answer for you. Once someone is trapped by their ego, breaking free is incredibly difficult—like a butterfly caught in a glass jar. This is why rehabilitating certain types of criminals is nearly impossible. I wrote about my own experience of dismantling my ego by cutting off all external validation. The pain was so overwhelming that I needed divine intervention to survive it.
Most people won’t take this path because they believe safety and comfort will save them. But true grounding—the kind that shapes you into a good person—comes through self sacrifice. I write about this often.
My entire Substack, Weird Logic, is about killing the ego. The ego is threatened by logic, and progressives have come to see logic as white supremacy. As a result, they rely on emotions for reasoning, reinforcing their ego through performative virtue that feeds their need for validation. Truly humbled people don’t need to do any of this.
Perhaps the most effective way to shift the culture is to lead by example. Disarm others with grace when they’re wrong, and inspire them by embodying what it means to live with truth and integrity—it’s the most rewarding action you can do to stop the cycle of abuse.
I don’t have a simple answer for you. Once someone is trapped by their ego, breaking free is incredibly difficult—like a butterfly caught in a glass jar. This is why rehabilitating certain types of criminals is nearly impossible. I wrote about my own experience of dismantling my ego by cutting off all external validation. The pain was so overwhelming that I needed divine intervention to survive it.
https://open.substack.com/pub/emmakearney/p/i-lived-like-thoreau-for-a-whole?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Most people won’t take this path because they believe safety and comfort will save them. But true grounding—the kind that shapes you into a good person—comes through self sacrifice. I write about this often.
My entire Substack, Weird Logic, is about killing the ego. The ego is threatened by logic, and progressives have come to see logic as white supremacy. As a result, they rely on emotions for reasoning, reinforcing their ego through performative virtue that feeds their need for validation. Truly humbled people don’t need to do any of this.
Perhaps the most effective way to shift the culture is to lead by example. Disarm others with grace when they’re wrong, and inspire them by embodying what it means to live with truth and integrity—it’s the most rewarding action you can do to stop the cycle of abuse.