"The more I want to be me, the more I feel an emptiness. The more I express myself, the more I am drained. The more I run after myself, the more tired I get. We treat our Self like a boring box office. We’ve become our own representatives in a strange commerce, guarantors of a personalization that feels, in the end, a lot more like an amputation…The injunction, everywhere, to “be someone” maintains the pathological state that makes this society necessary. The injunction to be strong produces the very weakness by which it maintains itself, so that everything seems to take on a therapeutic character, even working, even love. All those “How’s it goings?” that we exchange give the impression of a society composed of patients taking each other’s temperature…Soon this society will only be held together by the mere tension of all the social atoms straining towards an illusory cure. It’s a power plant that runs its turbines on a gigantic reservoir of unwept tears, always on the verge of spilling over."

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The Coming Insurrection

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  15. stoicmike said: Why can’t we just live our lives as best we can without this terrible burden of needing to be remembered for something, to make a difference, make a contribution, live lightly, speak out, stand for something, raise consciousness, save the planet?
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