Profound. Illusion piled upon indoctrinated illusion. I can't even imagine how this is affecting the new generations. And I now understand better why it is hard for older generations to relate to what's happening.
Absolutely. The concept of the self emerged with literacy. Before that, people could not identify themselves apart from the tribe. Authorship emerged with manuscripts, to identify manuscripts/concepts by attribution (with some precursor in the naming/ownership of schools and traditions in philosophy and the arts, I guess).
But since literate and complex individuality is now reversing into identity — IDying everyone with the group — we do return to identifying ourselves by totemic names (or, later, names-instructions, like Muller or Smithson).
And yes, our identities are easier to package and display within platform-suggested presentations, which are just slightly more complex versions of “skins” one can buy in video games. So you can wear it, but not actually fully own it in old sense.
Profound. Illusion piled upon indoctrinated illusion. I can't even imagine how this is affecting the new generations. And I now understand better why it is hard for older generations to relate to what's happening.
where do all the posts go?
Like is there a server in ubuntustan?
Absolutely. The concept of the self emerged with literacy. Before that, people could not identify themselves apart from the tribe. Authorship emerged with manuscripts, to identify manuscripts/concepts by attribution (with some precursor in the naming/ownership of schools and traditions in philosophy and the arts, I guess).
But since literate and complex individuality is now reversing into identity — IDying everyone with the group — we do return to identifying ourselves by totemic names (or, later, names-instructions, like Muller or Smithson).
And yes, our identities are easier to package and display within platform-suggested presentations, which are just slightly more complex versions of “skins” one can buy in video games. So you can wear it, but not actually fully own it in old sense.