Is there even such a thing as “the things our inner selves want, independently of the role”? Or, are all our preferences always part of the role and it’s meaningless to talk about preferences that are not?
Some people spend almost none of their time alone, by which I mean not being exposed to social pressures (so e.g. being on Facebook doesn’t count as being alone in the sense I mean it here). Those people will probably learn some things about themselves by deliberately spending a lot of time alone, for example at a silent meditation retreat.
Some people spend almost none of their time alone, by which I mean not being exposed to social pressures (so e.g. being on Facebook doesn’t count as being alone in the sense I mean it here). Those people will probably learn some things about themselves by deliberately spending a lot of time alone, for example at a silent meditation retreat.