…is when you say “my school is better than your school”
or “i know more/better than you”
…but the best is
“i’m oh-so-cool b/c i meditate & stuff”
Chogyam Trungpa calls this the “golden chain”, & is the last (& hardest) egoic barrier to enlightenment.
i call it the “new age curse”, & i see it everywhere, here in the Bay Area.
or as this old drunk told me, as we narrowly missed being mowed-down by a volvo while jaywalking on Telegraph,
“see that bumper-sticker? ‘Visualize World Peace’.
“You gotta watch those new-age bastards, they’ll run you down soon as look at you.
“I’ve had rednecks, school buses, even Hell’s Angels stop & let me [jaywalk] in front of them… but not those volvo-driving bastards…
“they’re ‘me-first’ all the way…”
God Bless you, Mr. Drunk. In vino veritas, or whatever. (“in wine there is disk-management software”?!) 
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