Moving to a city means that you have the freedom to narrate your own life—as long as you forget that that narrative has been commercialized. To quote Durkheim again: “We are the victims of an illusion which leads us to believe we have ourselves produced what has been imposed upon us externally.”

Chul-Han suggested that the self is an ever-shifting thing—not something that can be discovered but something that arises naturally from everyday experience. It is not a stable product conjured through self-reflection, shopping sprees or meditation retreats, but a process that emerges in how we interact with the world.