The No-Ego Ego Trip: An Interlude

Every year or two I field an earnest message from someone who’s just discovered that the human ego is the cause of all the world’s problems. The sender’s invariably a relatively young man, and he’s usually sure that he’s discovered something that no one has ever thought of before. His preparation for his great discovery might be anything from 750 micrograms of LSD to a decade spent wallowing in abstruse philosophical writings of east and west, and the discovery itself may be embodied in anything...