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Or Kill Me / no damn self
June 16, 2003, 11:43:02 AM
Mmmmm I feel something that should be stated on a manifesto is "no, you don't need to find your real self, there's no damn real self, forget it". When trying to deconstruct their education and break some chains, people usually try to rely on some absurd stable idea of the "true self".

I mean, that attitude that goes "oh yeah I'm bound by rules but should I find my real self inside all this crap, I'll become liberated by living it. You just gotta be yourself". If I was to write a manifesto for those "on the road", I would also try to influence the readers stop searching for themselves and realizing there's no self inside them; we're just our beliefs, traits, prejudices and so on. We can play with them, believe ourselves different traits and 'chaoticly' regulate ourselves to overcome and destroy regulations, but believing there's a deep-self more than our masks - wether we are playing with them or not - is pretty gullible.