Sep 20, 2025
Of course, you can decide that you are enlightened and awake because you insist that you have free will. But society will no longer accept you in this form because for life you are an object.
This is where the metaphysical no-self discussion collides brutally with raw social reality. Society does not operate on subtle phenomenology; it operates on identities, names, and objects. Courts, banks, employers, neighbors treat you as an object. A person with obligations, rights, and measurable traits.