Quotation by

Robert Anton Wilson

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

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Understanding this quote AI Analysis

The idea of ego is a made-up concept created by society to identify a single individual as responsible for actions or problems. This means that when something goes wrong, only one person is singled out to take the blame, even though the ego itself is not a real, independent thing.

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