Clarissa's Blog

For a religious person, the #1 task is understanding the will of God and serving God’s purpose.

Neoliberal subjects see themselves as God. So their main goal is to figure out what their “true self” is and how to serve the whims of that true self all the more faithfully.

At the same time, they have convinced themselves that a stable identity core is impossible or at least undesirable because it prevents constant growth. So the “true self” can never be fully known. Because it doesn’t exist. The result is constant striving, constant fussing, rearranging, seeking, medicating, microdosing and manifesting in order to coal out something that isn’t there to begin with.

When a human being becomes completely self-referential, bad things happen. You can’t be the measure of good and ill. No self is big enough for this task.