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In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’.

On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’.

Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension.

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Considering different types of ego this lunchtime including Clyde Barrow’s inability to admit defeat.

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Discussing Alan Watts today who wrote that viewing ourselves inside the head, as an ego, is a ‘dangerous hallucination’.

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Everyth in g we’ve disxussed so far this week, plus an invitation to join the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club.

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Discussing various leaders and how ego drives behaviour this lunchtime.

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Welcome to your walk, and episode 3 of our new series on the theme of Ego.

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Introducing Douglas Adams’ Total Perspective Vortex and Hanlon’s razor.

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Get out into nature with Walk the Pod! Today’s episode introduces our new Series theme: Ego.

realbubbs shared on Instagram: time x space x silence = luxury
Anything else calling itself luxury is a trinket of the ego

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Walking around my local woods with some more reflections on our Slowing Down theme, plus a huge thank you to members of the Walk the Pod lunchtime walk club:

Rob in New Zealand,
Marcel in The Netherlands

And in the UK:
– Catherine in Ealing
– Nick in Worcester
– Jim in Manchester
– Gaynor and Tati in Brockley
– Hannah, Sam and Katie in SW London
– Helen in Crystal Palace
– John in Muswell Hill
– Hilary from Trundl
– Mum in the beautiful Malvern hills
– Dad in rural Norfolk
– DJ Postie Nige
– and Rear Admiral Tim in The Independent People’s Republic of Croydon

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Your 62nd Series of Walk the Pod starts on Monday 2nd March.

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Rounding up a few of the themes of the series. Plus voicenotes from Kiwi Rob and DJ Postie Nige.

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