When people are inserted into a world of detachment and superficial cooperativeness, of weak ties and interchangeable r/s, and when all this is shaped by the pursuit of risk-taking and self-reinvention, the power of traditional social norms and cultural traditions begins to diminsih. This can be potentially liberating: the self fines the potential to define itself anew and create fluid and innovative social r/s. But there is also something deeply unsettling. For a self that is constituted entirely through episodes and fragments has little to hold itself together in emotional terms; and it is this drift of character, of corrosion of the self...
~Concepts of the Self, Elliot A.
gees that's so totally happening..
