The Borders of the Self

It is high time to create a list of authors, publishers and content creators of whatever type you enjoy who would never do this to you:

Nobody will protect the boundaries of our inner self. We will have to protect them ourselves. We will have to close ourselves down and patrol the perimeter. We will have to do our own border policing. Nothing that hasn’t been pre-vetted gets to come in.

There is no task more important at this moment than to establish very strict and impenetrable boundaries between our inner self and the world. The biggest class difference a decade from now will be between people who boundaried up hard and those who failed to do so.

2 thoughts on “The Borders of the Self

  1. That’s throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Our whole role as intelligentsia is to be the high discernment yet high openness scouts of the Something Else.

    Developing taste is an entirely different proposition from pre-vetting. If we need someone else to do our pre-vetting we have already abdicated.

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