Our literature tells us that there are three major instincts common to all mankind: security, society, and sex. Or money, ego, and sex, if you will. It's kind of hard to call sex by anything but its God given name. Sex is sex. Nobody confuses a walk in the park with having sex. Some of us look for sex in the park but it's still clearly sex. I digress. Talking about sex does that to me. It's very . . . compelling.
Our literature warns us that alcoholics take more than their fair share from the instincts' buffet. We hire lackeys to cart away whole tureens of mashed potatoes. We eye our neighbor's potatoes enviously even though we couldn't eat one more bite of food. We don't even like mashed potatoes. These overwrought, supercharged instincts cause us all kinds of problems. Practically all of the problems that there are.
Clearly we have a large appetite for money. There never seems to be enough. We can always find something else stupid to buy. Sex is also one of the more popular instincts. Most of us have overdone our pursuit of the sex instinct. That's why there are so many bars, after all.
Ego is a little trickier. We feel like we are humble until someone makes us wait in line to buy our Rice-a Roni. We call this syndrome Egomania with an inferiority complex.
Oh, yeah, there's a lot more to say about ego.
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