Identity In the Age of Detachment
“Who are you?” There goes the million-dollar question! No, but really, do you know who you are? Behind your job, relationships, age, gender, history, etc., do you understand your life, or your desires, the things that make your existence worthwhile? No, I don’t really know. Maybe that’s why I have such an obsession with astrology: I’m a Capricorn! “Oh, so you’re that ambitious woman who doesn’t play when it comes to money,” they would respond (yeah… let’s just call it that); or shoving my life into clearly cut aesthetics, which at this point change faster than the average length of a TikTok video. What is my ‘true self’? Is that even a real thing? You know what they all say: when in doubt, read some Hegel! Conveniently enough, Hegel’s dialectical framework is useful for explaining the identity crisis of the modern age. Hegel explained the dialectical process through a marriage analogy (which in itself is a whole other crisis that would require its own separate rant) where, i...
