Ego Is A Tool We Master, Or One That Masters Us

From the moment we’re born, all of us are taught associatively to attach our identity to the identity of the person, persons, stricture, customs, and place of our birth, to attach identity to our name, looks, thoughts, feelings, senses and actions.

- Thomas Easley

We are taught that identity attachment is needed to survive, to shield us from social exclusion, to gain purpose, value, worth in our own eyes and that of other people. We are taught that ego defines us even while ego is inserted into the centre of our identity before we’re old enough to decide who we are for ourselves. We’re taught what to think before learning how to think. This means choice is taken from us. And we grow up believing ego is who we are, an identity which binds us to what has been or what may be voiding the present and hiding from us the prosecutorial fact that life is an indifferent womb, taking nourishment from all that consume it; that material significance, human significance, and individual significance have no relevance in objective reality, in present reality.