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When Jason was alone out at sea for months on end, his self unbundled into multiple personalities. "It seemed completely sane". This is consistent with other things I've read about people in ultra-solitude. The coherent self is constructed for interfacing with others https://t.co/kpRLk1Aq6V
Christopher Knight similarly-ish described how, in his 27-year hermit solitude, "I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant." https://t.co/Px7dJadeUD https://t.co/W9Jm0MYWLH
I remember this story vividly. He had a quote about how, without people to perform his identity to, he forgot who he was, and simply existed. That quote stuck with me ever since I read it. A sense of self is a social construct. (Journo asked for life advice: "get enough sleep") https://t.co/Sq8cK91oyp
everyone has their own Hernando and Jorge inside them, and more, but we seldom get to see it. It’s usually suppressed – we socialize it out of each other. Sometimes it bursts out in the most inopportune moments, and then we say that person “wasn’t themselves”… https://t.co/AVVtW6NaRn
@visakanv Wait fuck the way I phrased this right now made me realize this is literally the same paradox as this one goddamn https://t.co/YUkCOVuYha
The paradox I'm currently in love with: 1. existing culture is fucked up in ways I'll collectively call "A" 2. "A" is trying to fuck you up 3. "A" = "people trying to protect from being fucked up by A" 4. thus to shift "A" to "B", one must protect against "A" without protecting
@Malcolm_Ocean https://t.co/mJZ2q6dTEu
@Malcolm_Ocean https://t.co/k1aQNjLAez
@Malcolm_Ocean it’s also possible to feel constrained but choose to try not to constrain others, which might be less than ideal but I think that was my dominant mode as a teenager / early 20s. “Cycle ends with me” sorta