Ego and Greed

by Pat Antonopoulos

What a strange morning. First I am hinting at the importance of Women's Studies in the high schools, colleges and universities and now I want to take a run at ego and greed. I didn't actually mention Women's' Studies, but I should have done that when writing about Sacajawea.

Lost Horizons was suppose to be the absence of ego and greed, a place of contentment brought about by the absence of ego and greed. Scene after scene of opulent living for the leaders, while the happy workers tended the fields and herded the animals.

So where do I go with this, Gentle Reader?
Where does ego cross a line from healthy self awareness to the ugly place of needing to be Number One...to have the spotlight, no matter the consequence? Where does satisfying true needs become lost in the greed for more? Where does knowledge switch from the beauty of learning to the arrogance of knowing-more-than?

We all taste this. We know the struggle. We win and we loose, but sometimes the line is blurred between what exactly we have won and what is so sadly lost.