Zakarya's Fallacy - kept him amusingly enthralled with his troubling convictions!

If I could, I would, rather fit you into an |IRIDISCENT| <spectrophotometer> and send you off on a trip to Mars.

Zakarya! I am particularly impressed with your vocabulary, descriptiveness, and succinct ideas which speak to me in essence that you've considered, reflected thoroughly on cultural identity and ego by carefully analyzing your life wherein on one hand "ego" in your experience is a double-edged sword; however, cultural identity a menace for mankind. I reserve my right to amicably disagree with this because my beliefs are staunchly engraved/supported by Mythology (Sikhi), Science, and Education, anything that isn't specific or more general, rootlessness of culture, religion or geographical boundaries/indiscrete principles is incorrect, these make us wonder and lead to quests of reaching a conclusion or searching for outcomes but not being able to do so in a timely manner. Rootless professors are highly disregarded or looked down upon and are time and again encouraged to foster values such as "localness"/"national-connectedness" for what they’re worth, and their magnanimous capability to accomplish.

Sikhi on the other hand tells me that my gurus have always asked people of other religions to find strength in one's own religion to discover meaningful ways to live their individualistic lives, for e.g. a Muslim most definitely should follow Islam without hesitation and respect people who are religious albiet believing in "another god". Sikhi also teaches me that "Ego" or "Ahankaar" is a sin that will sooner than later destroy your soul, turning you into a disbeliever of the omnipotent god; and "Nimrata" or "Humility" - antithesis of Ego is a virtue is one of the most valuable tools to success and becoming a gurmukh - believer of the guru, life-long learner who appropriately is able to dissect and separate correct from incorrect as well as emulate these virtues in their own pursuits.

Ego, according to Freud, is ruled by the reality principle which uses logical thinking and planning to control consciousness, id is the unconscious source of energy or instincts that contrarily is ruled by pleasure principle, ego functions to satisfy id; therefore, I would like to argue with Freud - anything that helps engage in excessive pleasure will work against us not for us, for example: food, drugs, spending, making money - these are some common basic pleasures that un-virtuous and unkind engage in, if ego is utilized to feed the pleasure principle to extreme ends, all of these can accordingly result in disorders and malign our lives. In my experience, people have a love and hate relationship with pleasure – recently I’ve noticed that studying too much because it satisfies ego is equivalent to self-harm, most people are cognizant that they're overdoing it for simplistic reason that individuals begin spending decreased amounts of time engaging in healthy behaviors such as cooking and exercising, consequently end up absolutely eliminating discipline and routine which are two key aspects of living a long, healthy, and bountiful life. Thus, I agree to disagree for all of the reasons I've explained above as I hope you will not take it personally for this is just me subjectively responding to your ideas presented in the above passage which I don’t necessarily see as valid or being of benefit to another person.