Maybe every idea, every piece of knowledge is a kind of performance -- for the formation of a play on reality. We don't tend to realize these performances AS performances, but as facts. Likewise, we're forced to have images of "ourselves" and "others", and tend not to recognize these images as performances, and dramas, but as real qualities of who I am or who someone else is. And then these over-rehearsed performances of self and other can't follow the changing rhymes and rhythms of life without "breaking down" and reforming as new conclusive forms. We don't know how to relate to this performance of ourselves as artists or musicians.
"Everything was somehow out there. Even down to how I should consider who I was. The “answers” had to be external. What was not out there; in the opinions, reactions, and consequences of how I appeared to the others; everything, was outside."
Great reflections on "performance" and "persona".
Maybe every idea, every piece of knowledge is a kind of performance -- for the formation of a play on reality. We don't tend to realize these performances AS performances, but as facts. Likewise, we're forced to have images of "ourselves" and "others", and tend not to recognize these images as performances, and dramas, but as real qualities of who I am or who someone else is. And then these over-rehearsed performances of self and other can't follow the changing rhymes and rhythms of life without "breaking down" and reforming as new conclusive forms. We don't know how to relate to this performance of ourselves as artists or musicians.
"Everything was somehow out there. Even down to how I should consider who I was. The “answers” had to be external. What was not out there; in the opinions, reactions, and consequences of how I appeared to the others; everything, was outside."
This happens to many of us.