The Way Of Jesus
Identity
September 22, 2019 • Mike Tatlock
Modernity: • It emphasized the rejection of tradition and the prioritization of individualism • Rejection of Supernatural for the Natural • Human achievements are the solution to our future Post-Modernity: • A reaction to the optimism of modernity filed by a skepticism of truth and concrete conclusions • A desire to deconstruct paradigms that didn't fulfill their promises • Truth is no longer objective but subjective Today’s Identity Problem: • The truth of who we are is no longer established for us, but we must establish that for ourselves • For this reason we become concerned with constructing a ‘Narrative of Self’ so we can convince ourselves we have a stable Identity • Consumerism and social technology provides consumers with the symbolic resources with which to (re)construct their identities • This “Supermarket Self” is both a source of exhilaration (we are free to construct ourselves) and anxiety (we really don’t know who we are at the deepest level) • The people we value most have the most control over our Identity.
