![]() ![]() In a hyperconnected world, our identities matter more than ever – they become empowering, weaponised, sanctuary and danger simultaneously and it’s perhaps because of this, that we must now understand identity more than ever before. In his uniquely poetic way, Murakami identified one of the most profound truths of being human that we are a complex mesh of identities, each with narratives, expectations, behaviours and roles – and that such identities, and identity narratives are essential to the operating of our society. It is through such multilayering of roles in our stories that we heal the loneliness of being an isolated individual in the world.” ‘Storyteller’ and at the same time ‘character’. Murakami identified that, “ You are simultaneously subject and object. Such stories go beyond the limited rational system (or the systematic rationality) with which you surround yourself they are crucial keys to sharing time-experience with others…” “ If you lose your ego, you lose the thread of that narrative you call your Self,” wrote Haruki Murakami in his book Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche “ …humans, however, can’t live very long without some sense of a continuing story. ![]()
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