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DO 95 - Blake Smith w/ Donald Antenen and Ashley Colby

Doomer Optimism

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The Contemporary Demand for Validation of the Self

Lash: "I think it's a wish maybe to overcome like the, the complexity of contemporary life where we are like shuttled between many different roles in a way that can feel really inhuman" The self becomes absorbed into a category. And then it's demanding validation for the category of which we would just become an avatar. We sort of have come to take it for granted that people have a kind of mastery over their categories and how they expect to be affirmed with them. But if you live in a place where people actually know each other, it's actually pretty normal to be recognized as a racial person or not as a category.

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