Every sufficiently complex system tends to exhibit ego.

Ego is not only individual but also collective.

I'm really excited about this topic because it's such a juicy one.

There's so much to say here.

In this episode I want to share with you a powerful lens for

looking at social systems and understanding how they work and that is the lens of the collective ego. Now with personal development and

self actualization a lot of what we do is we turn inwards and we focus on

ourselves on our own individual egos and we've talked about this topic ad nauseum at this point

with throughout the episodes but there's also a lot of value in studying yourself and learning the tricks of your own ego, learning your

own self-deception mechanisms, and then starting to see parallels of that out in the

social systems of which you are a part of and which comprise the majority of human

life if you think about it are comprised of various kinds of

social systems which also have a sort of ego such that once you start to understand the tricks of your own ego, you will start to understand all social systems.

And this becomes extremely useful because you then become quite good at predicting why these systems are malfunctioning

and also how to guide these systems to better levels of performance and higher consciousness,

which is ultimately what we want. We want that individually for ourselves,

which is where it starts, that's a good start,

but then we also want collectively the same sort of thing.

As a general principle of life we can say that every complex system or group of people tends to exhibit ego.

That's my claim.

Now what is ego?

Well, of course, that's a loaded word and there's hours of discussion we can have about that and there's different perspectives we can take on it.

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