but then there is also an opposite fear, if you imagine a reverse pandemic where the self and the Inner become somehow toxic, you are anti-curfewed, you must never lose contact with others, never retreat to introverted self-sufficience
Graham Harman's work on object-oriented ontology is interesting to me because of how it relates to these two poles of existence
he fundamentally criticizes the tendency to explain away the Inner reality of beings, to say we are only relational, only participatory, only enmeshed