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?

Alex Dobrenko

despite believing myself to be an integrated self, I talk to myself as if I am composed of several ‘people’.

Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self

what is my relationship to my impersonal self?

Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote

maybe disappointing others is a way to redefine ourselves (if there’s no clay available???)

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

sundus sundusalfe.substack.com

The Post-Individual

Yancey Strickler ystrickler.com

The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns

bookshop.org

If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.

Andrew Spira • The Invention of the Self

Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote

I Am Me Before I Am Anything Else

The Post-Individual

The Self Delusion: The New Neuroscience of How We Invent--And Reinvent--Our Identities a book by Gregory Berns

Matter