Ego-Mania

The subject is too exquisite for the clumsiness of words and too sophisticated for the lack of better terms to be tackle as an issue, like any other issue, with differing perspectives and differing conclusions despite the subjective dispositions, attitudes and understanding.

The glorified magnified “I”, the personal identity of the whole person, the subject and object of the individual consciousness, expressed through the emphasis on pure selfish and personal interests and desires, seems hardly accidental and coincidental to clear away the detritus of decades of clinical objectivity and cultural acquisitiveness in treating the subject as esoteric and abstract.

The French referred to ego-mania as the “despicable (hateful) “I”, since at its roots all evil camps, blinded by the special egoistic interests and self-gratifying love.

The never-ending saga of egomania is, in essence, the impetus and kinematics of the emotions, interests and desires that dictate the justification of the self-gratification and self-glorification. Bear in mind that it is the serious bone of contention in life corridors, since to argue on behalf of oneself is like attempting vainly to prove that it’s light in the daytime and dark at night.

Parading through the combined and derivative words of ego-mania, from selfishness, egotism, self or ego-centrism, self-righteousness, self-conceit, self-confidence, self-help, self-respect, self-esteem and self-love as well as self-defense, one wonders about the thin hair outlining the self-exaltation, self-satisfaction and self-seeking advocated by the world and the calling for self-denial, self-abjuration and self-sacrificing by the enduring faiths.

It is self-evident that self-pride and self-love, although essential to the evolution of one’s characters, should not be the only criteria by which one interacts with his fellowman, as the hair holding the positive with the negative is so thin and puny that it requires great self-control to keep it from snapping, then I can say: I saw a person without self.

Let’s heed the words of Horace: “The lofty pine is often agitated by the winds, high towers rush to the earth with heavier fall, and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains”.