Freud was right, we are all egotists and we need to learn how to control, harness the ego
Question from the Internet:
“Why did Sigmund Freud suggest that human beings are selfish by nature and if left to develop outside the constraints and values imposed by society they would seek immediate gratification at the expense of others’ well‐being?”
Freud has realised what unique, empirical, Natural scientists had been saying, writing for millennia: Human nature is inherently egotistical, subjective, self-serving and self-justifying, moreover we gain actual pleasure from succeeding, surviving at the expense of others.
Our ego is so shrewd, and can “cover its track” so efficiently, that most people are completely unaware of their own true intentions, attitude towards others and genuinely, honestly believe that they a capable of altruism, empathy, unconditional love towards others.
This is why most are very offended to hear such notions what Freud or the above mentioned scientists state. In our generation - on the brink of self-destruction as a result of our utter inability to connect with others, to make calculations outside of egotistic self-benefit - we have become more sensitive, open to the truth about our inherent nature, program.
As Freud suggested without some sort of framework, constraint our ego runs rampant, using, exploiting everything, consuming all like cancer until we self-destruct.
But we can also see that the constraints, laws, ideologies, systems in societies we have invented, used so far are insufficient, and sooner or later we corrupt and destroy the civilization we built - as it happens now.
Thus we need to achieve a more direct control over our egos - which ego cannot be suppressed or erased as history shows. We need to find a way to harness, channel the ego while it is neither suppressed, not erased, moreover it continues to grow.
We need to find a complementing, neutralising “opposite force”, a second reign, control, which allows us to direct the ego’s awesome force towards positive, constructive, collective goals and purposes.
For this we need a very unique, purposeful and highly practical educational method - which the above mentioned unique empirical scientists established for us, and is open, available for anybody who wants to use it.
The “truly Human being” is one who established total control, a fragile dynamic balance over one’s life, by using two reins, the original egotistic inclination, program and its complementing opposite, Nature’s altruistic, unconditionally serving force.