# S62E8 Ego is inevitable

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Podcast: [Walk the Pod: 10 minute walking](https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-the-pod-10-minute-walking-7051259)
Published: 2026-03-11T13:23:48+00:00
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Duration seconds: 587

## Resource

In today’s episode, a walk in the woods discussing Ursula Le Guin’s discussion of ego in ‘The Dispossed’. On Le Guin’s fictional planet, Annares, humans in an egalitarian society are ostracised for ‘egoising’. Egoising is an inevitable corrollary to the struggle between community and a sense of self. Le Guin does not describe it as a moral failing, just a tension. Join the Walk the Pod Lunchtime walk club for theme voting, private Discord server, and beautiful Walk the Pod artwork stickers! https://www.patreon.com/c/rachelwheeley

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