The Ego's Love Is Coming From Its Peer Group

The world is divided into simple, external, absolute categories of people. People are either perceived as your allies or your enemies in the sort of binary sense. It's very black and white thinking. Still here at this stage, these people feel honored to be part of a group with high status. And so there's a lot of energy put into gaining more and more status,. becoming cooler, rising up the ladder, up the hierarchy.