“What society teaches people is not to guard themselves like precious gold that must not be stolen, but rather to make them forget that they themselves are valuable gold—encouraging them to scatter this gem within outwardly. If one pays attention to those who have internalized and ritualized the selling of their soul, it becomes clear: they possess dozens of interests and pursuits, paint colorful pictures, and write rich texts, yet remain inwardly colorless and utterly empty.” PassionIdentityGoldMarketingAdvertisingAdvertisementMarketCommodificationSaleMonetizing Author:Sov8840
“Every kind of passion is being transformed into a form of industry. Every passion is monetized or at least expected to be. This can be observed in schools, shows, articles, conferences, films, advertisements, and even within the primitive instincts of humans: the relentless conversion of passion into profession, the monetization of personal emotions and thoughts. This message is constantly propagated, taught, and encouraged by all of these forces. More than that, it is what people dream of—because they all embody identities scripted by singular capitalist narratives. And this constitutes the greatest insult to one’s inner world.” SelfPassionInterestIdentityCapitalismMarketingAdvertisingAlienationSaleMonetizing Author:Sov8840
“...and they absorb the world shaped by these, "constructing" their thoughts, feelings, words, actions, identity, and beliefs accordingly. Which means they will think in the same way, feel the same things, use the same words, do the same actions, have the same identity, and carry the same beliefs as the rest of the society.” CommonInfluenceIdentityOrdinaryUnconsciousAssimilationNormalityHerd MentalityNormativeAbsorbtion Author:Sov8840
“...and they absorb the world shaped by these, "constructing" their thoughts, feelings, words, actions, identity, and beliefs accordingly, which means they will think in the same way, feel the same things, use the same words, do the same actions, have the same identity, and carry the same beliefs as the rest of society.” CommonInfluenceIdentityNormalOrdinaryUnconsciousAssimilationNormalityHerd MentalityNormative Author:Sov8840
“I am everything, because I am nothing. I am everywhere, because I am nowhere.” SelfIdentityEternalEternityVoidNothingEverythingNowhereEverywhereBounders Author:Sov8840
“In the future, everything will be free. Everything will be liberated, and thus stripped of permanence, solidity, stability, certainty, and coherence. The identities people embrace will become shapeable like water—so much so that the very notion of identity will vanish. Because if everything can be anything, if everything can be labeled, defined, decorated, and marketed endlessly, then nothing is anything. An era will arrive that is so “free,” so soaked in infinite rights, that a rare few who glimpse the fundamental slavery hidden within this endless liberty will begin to yearn for authoritarian and totalitarian regimes—as if feeling nostalgia for one’s own tyrant.” ValuesFreedomLibertyIdentityFutureCapitalismIndividualismTotalitarianismFluidityArtificiality Author:Sov8840
“People love walking around with labels attached to them by others or labels they give themselves. They are prisoners of roles they did not choose, punished by systems they did not design, and shaped by forces they cannot name” PhilosophyIdentityPrisonLabelsSimplificationLabelingCageCategorizationLabelEntrapment Author:Sov8840
“...and once people start to believe in these categories, their imagination becomes domesticated. Since capitalism doesn't only shape lives but also identities, they begin to critique themselves using the system’s own logic—feeling guilt for not being “productive,” anxiety for not being “attractive,” or shame for not being “confident and sociable.” ValuesInfluenceIdentityCapitalismUnconsciousNormNormalityColonizationSelf HateAbsorbtion Author:Sov8840