The Classical Problem of Identity (TCPOI) is one of my favorite topics of conversation.
What you figure out is that even when you are "being 100% authentic" nobody will believe you are being 100% authentic. They only believe you are sincere when you reflect their expectations.
Ah. I am not reflecting most people's expectations at present, bad little citizen of the totalitarian state that I am, and have few friends left. Somehow, I feel comforted by Kumare.
You are the most perfectly you that you can be,...it's not your fault that our forbearers couldn't leave us better than this.
It is only on us to leave it better than we found it.
Though, at this point, I'm about to give up on others ever catching on.
That should be when the change finally occurs, just before admitting defeat.
I'm glad you're still here.
OK mister I have just spent more than two hours on this post of yours. I still have @antisocialist's video to watch, as well as yours on identity. I need to go for a walk and reconnect with my inner not-self. Hopefully I will be back, because this has been swell.
8^) this one's only 3 minutes and 54 seconds.
Thankfully. But it packs a wallop, left me with a feeling of my own bloated self.