A New Earth
humanity and suffering. They become trapped in an insane spiral of
perpetration and retribution, action and reaction.
Here it becomes obvious that the human ego in its collective aspect as
“us” against “them” is even more insane that n the “me,” the individual ego,
although the mechanism is the same. By far the greater part of violence that
humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the
mentally derange, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the
collective ego. One can go far as to say that on this planet “normal” equals
insane. What is it that lies at the root of this insanity? Complete
identification with thought and emotion, that is to say, ego.
Greed, selfishness, exploitation, cruelty, and violence are still all-
pervasive on this planet. When you don't recognize them as individual and
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