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Claustrophobic Individuality
What’s real and what’s fake has become less and less meaningful of a distinction. Many kids validate the synthetic and artificial as being of more validity, more worth for interacting with and socializing and everything, than the round of meat and machines.
The kneeling of the head is not about lowering one’s status before one of higher status, but is an echo of the ancient animal gesture of bowing the head to drink at water, and the honoring involved therein.
We in modernity are pointed in the wrong direction. We attempt to “make ourselves," to win a name, become an individual. But to become meaningful, to find meaningfulness, one must unbecome an individual – in-historicity, and identify with an archetype. From the perspective of the (historicized) individual, this is experienced as a diminishment, a dissolution.
Consider a group, a cult, of individuals with brain– machine interfaces, all voluntarily wiring in to unbecome a constellation of “selves” and permitting their bandwidth to collectivize, becoming something much greater. How claustrophobic individuality would be after that.
