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There’s a difference between self-obsession and self-worth. The most narcissistic people I know all hate themselves; I couldn’t hazard to guess which way causality flows there. I rarely think of myself, but I doubt you have ever met anybody who thinks as highly of themselves as I do.
The issue is that we have a single word—“ego”—to describe both of these things.
Yes and I don’t even know the history of the word, how the meaning changed. Esp. that it was in Buddhist centers with Tibetan stuff all over it where this word I heard used the most often—yet what business does a Latin word have there at all? It may be a reuse. “Meditation” is actually a reuse and a pretty lossy one—it used to mean “thinking things over”.
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There’s a difference between self-obsession and self-worth. The most narcissistic people I know all hate themselves; I couldn’t hazard to guess which way causality flows there. I rarely think of myself, but I doubt you have ever met anybody who thinks as highly of themselves as I do.
The issue is that we have a single word—“ego”—to describe both of these things.
Yes and I don’t even know the history of the word, how the meaning changed. Esp. that it was in Buddhist centers with Tibetan stuff all over it where this word I heard used the most often—yet what business does a Latin word have there at all? It may be a reuse. “Meditation” is actually a reuse and a pretty lossy one—it used to mean “thinking things over”.