How to disappear completely

 

Let us  paraphrase the interrogator’s famous answer to Winston Smith,in 1984 who doubts the existence of Big Brother, “No, It isYOU who doesn’t exist!” the proper reply to the postmodern doubt about the existence of the ideological big Other  is the subject itself who doesn’t exist is: 'No  it is the self that doesn't exist. ,we are being taught which how to “create your life from the inside out,”finds its logical complement in books with titles like How to Disappear Completely—manuals about how to erase all traces of one’s previous existence,and “reinvent” oneself completely, Such thinking is best encapsulated by the new liberal warriors, progressives et al.