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

Doomer Optimism

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I'm Not a Self, but I've Merged Myself With These Sociological Categories

Blake: "Narcissism is not egoism. It's the disintegration of the self into the world, the failure to distinguish between self and world" He says a lot of contemporary identity stuff is just that. I'm not a self, but I'm part of these sociological categories. Blake: You could think of it as something that I can force on the world or that I can have the world, like fuse into it. And this all of me ends up being a really like limited, packaged, narrow thing.

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