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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

How we all became a brand

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Unintelligible Self

The idea of the individual is sort of unintelligible without other people around to acknowledge us and distinguish ourselves from. I think culturally speaking we've lost sight of the difficulty in reconciling all those parts of ourselves in favor of valorization of one part at the expense of the rest. We are mortal animals towards the end of my book I quote that soliloquy and how would what a piece of work is a man. There's so much there.

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