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diff --git a/org/blog/articles/case_against_identity.txt b/org/blog/articles/case_against_identity.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a9caa6f --- /dev/null +++ b/org/blog/articles/case_against_identity.txt @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +The modern day world is quite identity focused I would say. Identity is +something I both eat up and puke out, something I have my own version of but +in a way always go back to yet keep my distance from. It is yet another word +that been cleaned of any meaning yet used in many more ways every day. Over +all I see identity not as something not to be celecrated, I see it as +something to be abolished. + +### The anti-individualism of identity + +**Identity doesnt bring about individual freedom and expression: quite the +opposite, it puts us into grandfalloons and many times it is even controlled +by factors outside our own will even though its socially constructed from the +core.** Hell no I say to it all. Get those grandfalloon self image cripling +social constructs out of my face! If you ever gotten really fucking high you +would know social identity does not follow you into the void. You instead +start seeing yourself and thinking like a real individual. The logical and +emolutional nuances of your geist makes themsevles clear as rest of the world +fades out, every bias you have shows itself as a bias instead of an unarguable +fact of nature. A similar thing happens during rem stages of sleep, no matter +who you are and where you are in a dream those details carved into your brain +in a strange twisted way tells you that you arent the person you think you +are. Things that happened in the outside world seem not only to have shaped +you but tortured you as well, distanced you from your own geist to instead put +you in a social label: a mask you no longer know if its a mask or a part of +your face; under it is just flesh no skin and that reality scares social +comformists. + +### Descriptions instead of identities + +I dont identity as bisexual, I describe myself as bisexual. I dont identity +with socialism, I describe my polical ideology as aligned with it. In the past +I have gone ahead and made things my entire identity and it only leads to less +freedom and more suffering. Identity makes sure I pick a option and defend it +no matter how wrong instead of engaging in the search of truth. Knowing this +the identities people try to push on me causes pain though I dont see those +people worth my time anyways. You may say you are blue but that doesnt mean +your entire identity depends on it, instead it can remain a simple fact about +yourself and leave your geist free to travel as it pleases. + +### Identity and capitalism + +Under capitalism your entire existance as a proletariat orbits around +capitalist production. Your job is not just something that needs to get done +or something you do to make a living. Under capitalism your not a good worker +unless you make it your identity. From a young age everyone is pushed in this +direction, always asked "what do you want to be when you grow up?". Always +told to go to college to became a professional in one field and do only that +to the day you retire or die whatever comes first. Does it matter if you even +like it to start with not alone the entire time? Capitalism sure couldnt give +a fuck, they want the "you gotta do what you gotta do mindset" drilled into +your head. Capitalism fucking hates jack of all trades, they want someone who +has an entire college degree to push a button and cant do anything else. Talk +about systematic crimination against ADHD lol. To top things off they make it +so peoples entire self worth is centered around their job they ~~picked~~ got +forced into. + |