The ordinary ego-project is a continuous if unrecognized attempt to render the essential contingency and independence of existence, as a fantastical one-way flow of order from the self-defining format of the ego to the refractory "otherness" of the world. The ego-project first of all defines itself as an ideal constant, a model of Being or perfect stability insulated from the 'change' equated with death, in the very midst of the currents of change. That 'model' whether positive or negative, clear or muddy, self-exalting or self-deprecating is just an empty abstraction, a dry idea which begs to be 'filled in' - supported and completed by the utter conformance toward it of the world of change - the world of resistive 'otherness' through which personal 'will' is continuously displaced. So ego works to elicit the conformance of the world of change in support and substantiation of the ego-project. It seeks the confirmatory reaction, not necessarily the 'nod of approval' but simply the gesture or response-pattern that conforms to, and reinforces in objective reflection, the ego's self-model. It seeks the sense of global substantiation, complete universal reinforcement without a leak. It wishes to definitely Be through the very patterns of 'becoming', or change, out of which its centralizing self-sense is coordinately aligned.