I was reading this last night in Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. I see he is one of the tags at the bottom of the page and that the sidebar says the blog owner is collecting articles and excerpts, but perhaps some slightly more clear credit wouldn't go amiss.
And yet - irony of ironies - concentrating on one's experiencing self instead of the narrating self is the quintessence of meditation, a practice frequently credited with delivering spiritual experiences.
This article could have been interesting. However, I think it has little to do with its premise. It tries to link the experiencing self (the self that is here right now) and the narrating self (the self that creates memories and alters them) to the way lies and illusions are used for political purposes. Yes, you can, at best, compare the manipulation of masses to the manipulation that one's self commits against himself or herself. However, what does that say about the phenomenon itself?
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