Interesting disconnect between performed and felt identity these days. I think many can seem to perform "have self-authorship" on instagram/twitter without actually being stage 5 in their lives overall.
I'm amazed at how teens manage the schizoid condition
Yes… although dissonance between public and private selves, and the alienation that induces, has been a major theme for a century or more.
What seems new: social media make everyone’s performances more public, and also atomize their productions into disconnected fragments.
I think you're going to lose the pedantry battles if your popularization succeeds :D
I just remembered I wrote this thing in 2007 about this stuff. Hadn't heard of Kegan at that point. Would be interesting to revisit in Kegan light. I was also younger
I was post-authentic before it was cool 🙂
Speaking of which there seems to be a sudden crop of posts on post-authenticity. Maybe idea is finally going normie.
, but his blog has that early Simpsons structure where the title and first couple of paragraphs are about one thing and the rest is about something completely different, so it's hard to find a specific quote.