2018-03-18
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I released two episodes today, and I know not everyone has the luxury to listen to them back to back,
but if you do, I highly recommend it.
These two episodes go together, they need each other, they complete each other.
They should be together, help them.
So like we talked about last time, when structuralism bursts onto the scene in the early 20th century,
there's an immediate shift in the way many thinkers view the traditional assumptions we've made about subjectivity.
The idea that what you are is a free-acting, independent subject,
sort of disinterestedly taking in the universe, exploring the infinite options at your disposal.
I mean, all that starts to seem like an outdated, delusional way of viewing what it is to be a self.
What it starts to look like is what you are, every preference, every habit,
every belief that you hold is merely an expression of rituals and structures of a culture that you happen to be occupying during your time here.
The self doesn't shape the world, the world shapes the self as it goes.
Now this is usually easy for people to get on board with when it comes to the little things.
For example, the gestures that we use, right?