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Holy shit I fucking get it: his EGO is Spiral of Contempt because it represents holding something of abstract value like an art piece as more worthy than even life, and his awe at it blinds him to the reality as he holds everyone else that can't recognize it in contempt. It represents the mix of treasuring it with the Protections and the disgust at others via the Gaze.
But in the end it's just a piece of art whose value is in the eye of the beholder and so as he seeks the results of the New League of Nine he can't understand what he is forsaking for it. As Jia Qiu pointed out: his words aren't wrong but they are shallow. He believes himself right but doesn't properly understand the consequences of his actions and the blood that will spill from them.
It's a direct departure from Gubo that has the Fell Bullet that represents the collateral damage of a war that costs even the winners, giving him a power that can't be properly controlled and even will hit his own allies much like while he valued Yi Sang and misses him his actions were destroying him.