I promised to write about ego. This post from February 2014 is the last about Becker’s book Escape from Evil hence the title Escape 26. In it I introduce Norbert Elias’ work but the whole post is about ego. I still have things to write about ego, but this is a good start.
Roger Albert - Always a Sociologist: Now Living With Myeloma
Escape 26: It’s all about you and me. Yes, it’s personal, but the personal is the social.
So, I’ve managed to stay on schedule and write a blog post every day for the last 25 days. It’s been an exercise in discipline as much as anything. Why have I done this? Why have I done anything in my life? Why have you? I’ve been thinking about this for a long time and reading all the relevant material I could get my hands on. A lot of my attention has been and still is on the concept of morality and what it means to me as an individual and to the various groups I ‘belong’ to. In thinking about this, I like to use the metaphor of the dance.
Life for each of us is a dance, a dance between self-aggrandizement and self-effacement, between ego and group, between me and you…
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Roger Albert - Always a Sociologist: Now Living With Myeloma 