SuperEgo vs ID

Extract from Mission Homo Liberatus: The Begnning, Chapter 7

An honest person can remain honest only among trustworthy people. There is no other way. How does no one see this? And how many people can truly be trusted? Our service is living proof of that. Diplomats smile at each other and shake hands while their countries’ spies snoop around, probe for weak spots, and test for radiation, searching forests for nuclear weapons. They spy on us and we spy on them.

We deceive each other in the name of security. So, do we deceive out of fear? Even the most honest people break down in this den of self-preservation and start manoeuvring and scheming under the pretence of self-defence. Blaming them for this would just be… dishonest...

...Marx and Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto before Freud was even born. So, the first ideologists of communism couldn’t possibly have accounted for the psychology of the unconscious. In turn, all three Russian revolutions happened practically in parallel with Freud’s discoveries, which the revolutionaries didn’t consider back then, so it seems. They fought for universal equality but somehow turned a blind eye to the fact that universal equality requires universal honesty. And for everyone to be honest you’d need the superego, that is, conscience, to completely and irrevocably triumph in every individual. Then, what happens to the frightened and rule-breaking id, may I ask?

Even if there’s just one liar who refuses to play by the rules, he’ll inevitably exploit the honesty of others and profit at their expense like a virus. An insurmountable contradiction! If only Freud had lived fifty years earlier! He could’ve been Marx’s contemporary. Maybe they’d have met in London and agreed that abolishing private property was impossible without mass lobotomies...

"Your Marx was right about many things, although…” I picked up the book Andrei had been trying to read and quickly flipped through it. “… Freud was right too. By the way, both thinkers gave to the world much more than they received in return. One died in poverty and the other got defeated by cancer, which is the most typical reaction of your kind to energy starvation.”

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