Have you ever noticed how political debates often feel less like problem-solving and more like identity battles?
How ego shows up in politics:
- I am my beliefs” → disagreement feels like a personal attack.
- The need to be right by making the other wrong.
- Collective ego: parties, media, and movements feeding on drama.
- Old wounds (racism, class, culture wars) keep getting re-activated.
- Roles and labels (“patriot,” “woke,” “elitist,” “working-class”) taken as ultimate truth.
- Addiction to outrage cycles that give a false sense of aliveness.
What conscious politics could look like:
- Recognising beliefs are just thoughts, not who we are.
- Listening without needing to defend or attack.
- Seeing shared humanity beneath the labels.
- Approaching politics as practical problem-solving, not identity warfare.
- The paradox: the moment we see ego in ourselves or in our political tribe, we’ve already stepped beyond it. Awareness itself is freedom.
Imagine if even a small group of us engaged politics from presence rather than ego. What kind of Left and Right would we have then?