one possible goal of existence is to be
‘‘authentic’’… but what does that mean, exactly?
For far too many of us, we play our roles…
we play at being a citizen, worker, producer, consumer,
family man, economic being… we play many roles in
this time, place, state, society…
It is not enough to be an ‘‘individual’’, to play a role like
the ‘‘joker’’ did around here…which is still playing a role…
and what is the value of playing a role?
It helps in avoiding accountability or responsibility
for who we are and in pursuing our possibilities…
I am by nature, an introvert… but I work in a job that forces
me to be something I am not, an extrovert…
I am forced to play a role that I am not comfortable playing,
I am forced to be who I am not…and therein partly why
I am unhappy in my job…instead of working with my strengths,
I am forced to work with my weakness…which also explains
why I am always in trouble with the management…
because the stated goal of business/corporations is to make profits,
they don’t care how I do or feel or think…for my own values,
are completely unimportant to the primary goal of business,
and thus society/ and the state have accepted this goal of making
money/creating profits as the primary goal of the society and
thus the individual within that society only acceptable goal is
the making of money/ the creation of profits…
and how does this socially acceptable goal of chasing profits, money,
keep us from becoming authentic in who we are and what
we must do to be who we are…
the seeking of profits/money forces us into roles that
fails to take into account who we really are and what is
possible for us…
To rephrase this into existentialist language, the society/state
is preventing us from becoming authentic human beings…
by the society/state demand that the only acceptable goal is
the pursuit of wealth and profits… that goal denies us our
own possibilities and chances at becoming who we are…
our only value to a society fixated on profits/money is to play a role
in the pursuit of that profits/money… no other possibilities
exists within a state/society outside of our roles of making money/profits…
to seek out who we actually are and becoming who we are, requires
us to reject playing the role of society in which our only value
is the pursuit of wealth/money/profits… we have no other value within
our current state/society…
do you feel incomplete, fractured, alienated… it is because
your only value in the society/state today is to seek out profits
for the state/society… you have no other officially sanctioned
reason to exist within a society/state today but to achieve
the only acceptable goal given by society/the state today which
is to seek profit/money…
or said another way, you don’t exist for yourself, you exists to
make money/profits for the state/others.
and how can we become who we are if we are forced to play
the role of worker/producer as our only role within a society…
and the role of worker/producer has value only because it
creates profits/money…
we cannot become authentic human beings if we are forced
to play roles in order to make profits/money for the society/state…
Hence the modern dissatisfaction we moderns have with life…
we are unable to become who we are…
Kropotkin