A few questions, on the way towards some future post:
What difference can an attentive observer detect between person, persona and personality?
Why do the ruling powers spend so much loot and devote so much capital to the shaping of personality and the undermining of personhood?
Why do they insist so strongly that we must fear, most of all, the monsters among us?
So much, in fact and deed, that we cannot define them except to use their own terms - as bad men, as monsters, as betrayers of the common good?
Thereby perhaps reinforcing the colonization of the mind and persona which makes their power so stable, despite the many changes in leadership?
Crow's Eye: Maintaining a commitment to Pointless Acrimony™ and Hate Filled Invective™! Also available in corvid mischief and traditional sly dog's mistrust.
This is one of the many investigations to which I find Marcel Duchamp's "infra thin" applicable, which is one of the reasons I've been posting his notes on the subject. While thinking about these things, it can be a useful, or at the very least interesting, lens.
ReplyDeleteThat's an interesting insight. Using the ephemeral lens of the thin and absurd moment, an experience which has a residue but no immediate depth, to understand personality.
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Huh, I think you just proved wrong Duchamp's assertion that you can't define infra thin, only give examples.
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