CLASH OF EGOS

 

THE CLASH OF EGOS

 

OCTOBER 8, 2011. On one side, we have the people who fervently believe the very rich are plotting to steal everything in sight—especially from the poor.

 

On the other side, we have the people who believe our civilization was created through and by individuals who had a keen self-interest and a desire for More and the lazier types, who benefit from civilization, sit around and whine and try to steal as much as they can from the rich.

 

Both sides present good arguments. Both sides can marshal a reasonable case. Both sides overdo their claims, in certain respects.

 

What remains to be seen is what would happen if these sides could get beyond their own positions.

 

If this clash were staged as a play, act one would feature the argument, the conflict, act two would show breakthroughs on both sides, and act three would portray what happens after the breakthrough.

 

Every thinking person has some of each oppositional side in his consciousness. Therefore, it’s interesting to imagine the following: Smith plays the rich self-seeking individual and Jones plays the one who is being ripped off by the rich man and is seeking to bring him down.

 

These are roles. A long improvised dialogue ensues.

 

Afterwards, Smith and Jones switch roles, and undertake another long dialogue.

 

Suppose they keep playing these roles and switching, engaging in this improvised dialogue for a few months, every day.

 

What would happen?

 

Obviously, Smith and Jones could tell you, if they did it.

 

We all walk around with these remarkable constructed egos, “selves,” hardened positions, beliefs, attitudes, points of view, certainties, pre-shaped arguments.

 

We tend to think that, in their absence, we would dissolve into nothing, oblivion.

 

Suppose this view is entirely incorrect.

 

And suppose, if you don’t mind this fantasy too much, we discover, after we die, that this view IS entirely incorrect?

 

Might it not be better, in some sense, to come to the realization while we are alive?

 

This is one of the goals of the Magic Theater. To find out more, go to www.nomorefakenews.com, enter my blog and read the last two months or so of articles.

 

Jon Rappoport

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