BASIC EGO
The ego is a program built in to everybody to rationalise what they *sense* into units of understandable information in the brain. The ego also creates psychological barriers and ideas which control how the individual acts in every encounter throught thier life. Your ego creates your love and your hate, all emotion. Your ego creates games and boredom. Your ego comprises of almost evrything you *imagine* yourself to be (imagine: hence it is not really you! ... The problems, anxieties, paranoias etc that exist in the healthy mind are by-products of your ego too. Also, the media utilizes ego to mind control & uncounciously alter society. Some people have trouble recognising and controlling their ego until they become their ego, a manifestated program in the mind, whole heartedly believing their ignorance and becoming more and more deeply unhappy.