Anti-Egoism Ribbon Campaign

Jeolous of all those yellow “Support our Troops” ribbons, red AIDS awareness ribbons, and the many other ribbons for various causes? Well check out the Black Ribbon Campaign representing “the fight against ego everywhere.”

http://www.theblackribbon.org/

To quote from the site: “According to a recent Population Reference Bureau study on cross-cultural neuroses, over 2.5 billion people around the world suffer from the same disease: narcissism. By late 2012, through the increasing trend of globalization, or what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman calls the “flattening” of the world, this epidemic may affect nearly every human being on the planet. The plague is only growing. It's time to find a cure.”

Though we would probably estimate the number of people worldwide with ego problems as somewhere closer to 6 billion (the number of inhabitants on the planet) I think we can at least applaud their recognition that at least egoism (narcissism) is a problem. What they call death of ego is really not so much about true spiritual ego dissolution. Even their imagery (if you look at their memeware page) is about violence against the ego, yet any type of violence is exactly what ego thrives on. Their campaign is really anti-narcissm, not anti-ego. Still, it's a start.