kokanutwater

kokanutwater t1_jatitff wrote

It’s as interesting as it is clear that this concept of self the article and OP are grappling with is a western idea trying to divorce itself from a western perspective that it clearly can’t escape. It’s a shallow interpretation of the self as well (as shallow as any attempt to intellectually invoke Hitler in a conversation about the Self ffs)

The self, the individual, is an integral part of the whole. We don’t exist in a vacuum, however the whole can’t exist without the individual.

I think the heart of this argument has more to do with the way neoliberalism and hyper consumerism has created a culture (and as a symptom then, a personality of the individual) that is inherently anti-social. The “image” of “self”. Which is valid. In this way, the “image of self” becomes a form of escapism

But taking time to cultivate the self outside of the context of consumerism ultimately leads us back to the whole

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