Survival Is Not Rational, Is It?

People get upset by the idea that their identity, for example, is a fhantasy. The whole point and premise of survival is that you need to create an identity - but then deny that you've manufactured it. And if my identity isn't real, ell, then why bother protecting it or surviving it? You're right. There's no reason to bother surviving it. But that doesn't help you to survive, does it? So in this sense, if you can come up with some fh fantasy and then defend that and actually buy into it, so deeply that you believe it's reality, that literally becomes your reality. That's central to your entire understanding of your life.