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Comment by rwhyan | Hacker News Reader

Funny how many "I"'s and "my"'s in this piece.

This was especially ironic:

> "I want to kill my ego, or at least substantially break it"

It is at least a beginning. When someone is learning something new, they will naturally take some time to be good at it. They are merely expressing their awareness that the ego is something that is the root of their suffering. For now, they are comfortable expressing it from the ego’s point of view… because it’s familiar! We’ve all been there at some point, and most of us don’t even move on from it.

It seems to me that those criticising the OP for using too many “I”s are behaving like crabs in a bucket. Let us look beyond mere words and into what OP is actually trying to communicate.

The whole text reads to me as a huge ego trip.

Look at these quotes:

> You can’t tweet your way to self-respect.

> How can anyone farming a void on emptiness internally enact change?

> I see millions of empty users crying out for more validation

The author is web buddha and just achieved nirvana, others are just validation-seeking, void-farmer, self-disrespectful egotistical losers (I'm exaggerating, of course, but that's the gist of it).

I mean, I get it. First step to solve a problem is to recognize you have a problem. But does the text really does this, or just shifts it to a more generic, "it's everyone and not just me" problem?

Try to see how your ego is projecting.

Oh, I'm projecting all sorts of things, I'm sure of it.

I read it from an egoist perspective and I think it actually makes sense. Not sure in which way you are using the word irony, but if by the technical literary definition, yes I agree. Ironic.

Well when someone goes 'me, me, me!' and then declares their desire to reduce or 'kill' their ego, it does seem a bit odd.

It is preferable to generalizations or pretending you are speaking for other people.

I agree. To quit social media for selfish reasons is really not killing your ego; it's nourish it. Social Media should benefit all and it always comes at somebody's expense.

Not sure what you mean here. There is no obligation to use social media. Quitting it is a healthy move. It seems like you think acting for your own good is the same as selfishness, which would be ridiculous. You have a moral obligation to act for your own good. It's just that people often have stupid ideas about what it _objectively_ means to do that. True selfishness is not good for the selfish person.

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