“Ego always wins.”
“What?”
“I said: ‘ego always wins’. It’s unavoidable. It’s an aspect of the human condition that can’t be moved. Our vanity, our altruism, our patriotism, our ability to love….it all comes down to ego. The self. Not bad. Not good. Just there.”
“That’s….rather disturbing. I’m not sure I want to believe that.”
“Ok….what if I gave you over a million examples?”
“Heh. This is a trick isn’t it?”
“Yuuup.”
“Ok. Hit me. Over a million examples….oh shit….”
“Yep. Facebook. Good thing we didn’t bet anything on that.”
“So how about pretensious Tumblr blogs with funky camera phone pictures?”
“Maybe. Let me think about that and get back to you….”




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