In a world where Skype enables immediate access to persons around the world, source accessibility should not be a problem. It is a problem we need to overcome in order to write unprejudiced histories. Thus, one of the greatest priorities of Estonian historical research is, as Kattago wrote, pluralism, a respect for all historical sources pertaining to a particular subject. Throughout the centuries, historians and other authors have written with motives towards self or national aggrandizement. This should no longer be so. We should record history as a whole, not just a piece or two of a puzzle. We should take into account all the major points-of-view and strive for neutrality and equitability.
One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoriness of personal self-hood is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group – a nation, a political party, corporation, institution, sect, club, gang, football team. In some cases the personal ego seems to dissolve completely as someone dedicates his or her life to working selflessly for the greater good of the collective without demanding personal rewards, recognition, or aggrandizement. What a relief to be freed of the dreadful burden of personal self. The members of the collective feel happy and fulfilled, no matter how hard they work, how many sacrifices they make. They appear to have gone beyond ego. The question is: Have they truly become free, or has the ego simply shifted from the personal to the collective? A collective ego manifests the same characteristics as the personal ego, such as the need for conflict and enemies, the need for more, the need to
She has solved, during the Cold War, ciphers in use at the American embassy in Moscow. Feats like these bear witness to knowledge that could only well up from a profound understanding of cryptography and cryptanalysis. Whether this comprehension springs from the scientific ability that has enabled Russia to orbit great artificial satellites, or from the decades-long experience of cryptology that the Communist dictators have had to practice for self-preservation and aggrandizement, or from the habits of secrecy and puzzling out the real meaning of things that are ingrained into every inhabitant of a totalitarian society, or from a dark-souled Slavic love of the mysterious, it has beyond question rocketed Red accomplishments in this black art to Sputnik height. . 17. N. S. A. IT HAS BEEN said that 90 per cent of all the scientists who have ever lived are living today. The remark applies to cryptology with even greater force.