The purpose of egocentricity is to give meaning to bullsheit and defend that meaning as if it were "true." But the point is not whether the bullsheit is actually "true" or not, just the purpose of having something to defend as "true" (cause deep down in your mammalian brain is the understanding that none of your bullsheit is true, but your fatty gray matter has snuffed that out completely and called it "logic"). You experience a "world" of a million "truths," each requiring a choice and, once the choice is made, demanding its own uncompromising defense (yet, surprisingly, egocentrics still believe there can be peace in such a "world").
Egocentrics can only recognize their egocentricity by pressing it against other egos in competition for truth.
Which begs the question...does truth need defense?
Only in a dream....
Jettison meaning, purpose and direction and everything becomes a surprise...
Interesting post again, Mike. It's a difficult one for me personally, this (as I'm sure it is for most people). I seem to spend a fair portion of my time internally defending what I 'know' to be true, against what seems like an onslaught of disinformation and spin doctoring 'on all sides', sometimes. I am thoroughly confused and easily hurt by this. Things like this post and the one you linked to remind me that you are right to say "jettison meaning, purpose and direction''. Any other way is worse than exhausting it seems.
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Indeed..it can be extremely exhausting...
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Mike