You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more
... especially the rich academic nuance that was prominent before the social media madness. I had built my entire identity and ethics around it. Kegan calls this self-authorship, where an individual builds a system of identity for themselves in the institutional stage.
When I realised that the “other” side was equally nuanced, rather than evil or “obviously wrong”, I had a terrible realisation of the relativity of each system and the rug was completely pulled away beneath my feet. I had malaise for a long time after.
I didn’t know what I believed anymore because previously I had thought my personal identity was based on something Right and True. Now I could see the system I used was based on founding assumptions that, while noble, and reasonable were mostly arbitrary.
And that it was perfectly possible for other people to choose completely different foundations, which were equally reasonable, noble and arbitrary and build a completely different, but equally justified, other identity. I couldn’t talk to any of my friends about this
because to question the system would be heresy. Rather than be kicked out for having wrong beliefs I drifted away from them. I felt evil for a while, a moral relativist. Getting more right wing as I got older and all that. But once I saw it, I couldn’t un-see it.
The not-knowing-what-I-thought was about 2-3 years. But feeling sad/guilty (malaise is a strong word) was not quite so long, I guess 6 months solid then on and off after that.
Interesting that you realized this the first time you questioned your own system. I had a few rounds of "everything I belive is wrong lets remodel my entire identity around this other ideology" before I came to that realization.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
