/lit/ - Literature

>>5074497
Disgusting

>>5013250
He could crack up all he wants, I still wouldn't have any reason to buy into his philosophy. He makes plenty of completely unsupported claims about the world that I don't think any reasonable person would accept as truth without some hard evidence. I'm not even talking about his philosophical ideas, I'm talking about things that he says like "Oh, excrement only smells bad to you intellectually destitute westerners! It's all social conditioning!" (I'm not exaggerating, this is an actual argument in The Book.)

>What do you even mean with ego?
Attacking western conceptions of ego is the entire point of The Book, so I can't see why I would need to explain that to someone who is defending Watts and has read his works. But anyway, ego is your conception of your "self" as separate from the world. Any further explanation of the idea is probably best found by rereading The Book.