Less ego, more alter ego

The etymology of communication (from the Latin noun communis, meaning “common”) suggests the fundamental idea of sharing and making something common, which is essential to understanding the various ways humans interact and exchange ideas.

But how to communicate in a society, like the one we live, dominated by egotism, personal interests, vanity, narcissism, individualism? Meaning a society in which nobody cares for the common things and for the others and their needs and their problems. In that “nobody”, paradoxically, is included also us – the communicators: those who should be and feel responsible for that “something common” and defend it and protect it.

How to get out of this ego-trap that is making our relationships so fragile, our empathy fake, our sensitivity numb and ultimately our ideas and our job irrelevant?

Lorenzo De Rita thinks it is delusional to think that the ego-army can be defeated: there are way too many of them around. And they are too powerful and too nasty.

But, maybe, what is possible is to abandon our egos to their own destiny; ignore them and, like an intronaut, go on a mission to find another ego within ourselves.

A better ego, a more altruistic ego, a more empathic ego. An alter ego.

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