Identity
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Identity
“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.”
― ram dass
― ram dass
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On designing a social network antithesis
ON GROUNDING
I think I *get* grounding now, so here goes nothing:
First, don't ask me how this works but it is just a FACT that you can shift what you identify with. The car, your phone, your VR character, the character you're playing in a play, in a game, (in life...), etc.... See more
Guy HAS FINISHED WRITING THE BOOK (BETA)x.comthe sum total of all of a person’s nodal points could be some kind of proxy for a personal identity. At the very least, it’s an indication of an individual perspective. Since writing this essay, I’ve thought a lot about this kind of personal intuition towards things: the radar that any person has that leads them to different points in their life.
Here for the Wrong Reasons — Are.na
The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonate with, and if we’re lucky, some part of the world might too.
A thing in the world is not innately a “nodal point” just waiting for you to encounter it, your recognition and love and attention for the thing is what makes it a “nodal point.”
Your radar is you. Not the things you focus on, but the orientation, the internal ruleset, your magnetism towards things, the natural intuition that you’ve had your whole life. The “desire lines” are you.
