We're all clay monsters now
Created based on E.L. Zeitgeist’s question: What would happen if people had the option to get rid of their outward facing identities (race, gender, etc) via a procedure that replaces your skin with a plasticine substance? How would it affect society?
maybe our identity was never a fixed thing?? has the internet actually changed anything or is it always a creation of our own minds? Or a creation of our community - is identity something that emerges when someone else sees you, a la quantum lol
to the extent that we are identified as a ‘self’, we are merely a performance of the possibilities latent in language.
Today, self-creation is no longer something some of us can do to set ourselves apart from the people we see as the masses, the crowd, or ‘la foule.’ Instead, it has become something that all of us ‘must’ do in order to maintain our financial and social position in a culture that sees reality as up for grabs, to garner the attention central to so mu
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A father sends his son to school. After 12years the son comes back and the father asks: "Did they teach you about that which cannot be seen, which cannot be heard and which cannot be known, yet without which nothing can be seen, heard or known?" - "No, what is that?" replies the son. So the father begins teaching:
Do you see these
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