Post-individualism

we grew up and got it drilled into us that the problem is dependence. Don’t be needy.

Our identity, our meaning, our purpose, as humans, was always our ties and obligations to others, and now we are trying to do it all alone, trying to figure out who we are alone, and we’re nobody alone, no wonder we’re confused. And for many of us life has become about trying to heal or hide this thing, shoving it down, this basic human need to

Likes, friends and followers do not provide us with resonance; they only strengthen the echoes of the self.