Is there an identifiable point of origin for the compulsive need to act the role of someone we are not? Who benefits from our pretense? R. D. Laing wrote in ‘The Divided Self’ that:
Our “normal” “adjusted” state is too often the betrayal of our true potentialities.”
Who benefits from this betrayal? I doubt we are the winners in this bargain with the Devil. We couldn't possibly have entered this agreement with informed consent. Yet, this bargain pollutes our world.
Metaphorically Speaking: This agreement is a form of bondage, and its annulment can start the journey to the Promised Land. Once it does, we find the Agents of Pharaoh chasing us into the parted sea. We know where this story leads, both them and us.
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To reach the end of pretense, one must first acknowledge the inescapability of pretense in the use of language. Even the use of a mere pronoun traps us in the pretense to a unitary, continuous self.
To reach the end of pretense, one must first acknowledge the inescapability of pretense in the use of language. Even the use of a mere pronoun traps us in the pretense to a unitary, continuous self.