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Understanding Survival - Part 2

Actualized.org - Self-Help, Psychology, Consciousness, Spirituality, Philosophy

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The Egoist's Favorite Defense Mechanism

Most people grossly underestimate how selfish they truly are, because they're constantly bullshotting themselves about it. This is another key technique. See my episode distraction, the egoist's favorite defense mechanism. Most people distract themselves from their own selfishness by externalizing the problem and criticizing the selfishness of others. And of course, from this results all the war and chaos and and evil that we're accustomed to seeing in the world. I'm just saying that you got to see tat all of these things. It's not just evil that somehow just happens, or that it's caused by the devil. No, do no. This is this is all coming from everybody else being just as

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