Sunday, May 14, 2023

The shapeshifters scrabble


The dilemma, to be categorized, yet the internal nature contradicts itself.

Obscurity hurts, being unrecognizable hurts, being too smart pants ivory tower hurts.

Commercialization, advocate oneself into something viable to the market.

Yet it's unpredictable, the commercial winds blow this way, or that way. No control over it. It happens. The worry of dumbing oneself down instead of simplifying crops up.

The anxiety of a persona that's trying his best to constrain himself within the spectrum of possibility of form. Clinging to masculinity, with its boy scout values, is the trouble.

Or some identification, any. I can't be anybody though, I have to be somebody.

It's this fear. Jim Sterling analysed Resident evil 6 with social anxiety. It's exactly that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xVEr-yhW4E

The chameleon's anxiety.