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Poll: If we define generalized homelessness as “having a disrupted/violated/messy boundary of self relative to environment,” at what level are you MOST homeless?
  • Physical stuff boundaries
    20.1%
  • Info flow boundaries
    42.8%
  • Relationship boundaries
    28.9%
  • Other
    8.2%
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I wonder if this question is as clear to everybody as it is in my head. Anybody utterly confused by what I mean?
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If you are confused and really want to vote this thread may help... or not
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Okay, I nerdsniped myself with this random side thought in my thread earlier about bearing witness to homelessness of the extreme, unraveled variety. twitter.com/vgr/status/135…
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Ok, thought of a simpler way to say it. Your generalized self is bounded by a clear function that separates "part-of-me stuff" from "part of the environment" where the "me" is your extended idea of self in that context.
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So for eg if you're married, your financial self is probably highly commingled with your partner, so you "self" includes both of you. But email/messaging self? Probably not unless you're over 70 (my parents share a digital-communication self)
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