Ego
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Culture as the Ego of a Society
Clifford Geertz, the founder of interpretive anthropology, once described culture as: ‘Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive…
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Stories All the Way Down
690 Words. A few years ago, I started noticing something that initially felt uncomfortable: every idea I hold, about myself and the world, every single one, is exactly that. Just an idea. Some are grounded on facts; others not so much. But they are all just ideas. Something that arrived from somewhere inside or outside,…
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The Disappointment of the Ego
Enlightenment is the greatest disappointment of the ego. This is a quote from Ram Dass’ that really hits home. Before delivering it, Ram Dass warns his audience that it will probably not feel ‘right’ when they hear it. It certainly was the case with me. It felt weird, clunky, forced… ‘How can something as “pure”…