The Gunfire That Barks "I Am! I Am!'

“Ego starts when a being stops considering itself a being and starts being its own point of view. It thinks survival is maintaining that point of view. An ego, therefore, is a point of view attempting to cause its own survival. So its purpose is domination of everything. An ego will sacrifice its own body just to be right.” — Adam Smith, writing about EST in his book Powers of Mind

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And that, right there, explains every mass shooter.