People are more possessive of their defects than they are of any other identity they have

Being a teapot of a certain kind and color is boring, they all come out more or less the same

But to be a broken teapot glued back together is exciting, you have unique crack patterns

The Japanese even turned that into an art form, Kintsugi

Wonder if the western obsession with categorizing the minute details of one's personal flaws and disorders is similarly an aesthetic revolt against standardization, fungibility and human supply flooding inherent to our age

Affirmative identity no longer cuts it anymore amid the flood of human supply from across the globe with maximum international mobility

Oh you're white/black/latinx/asian/albanian/etc? Capital has already thoroughly parsed you, slammed you into a market segment drawer

But, as always, capital will recalibrate and adapt soon enough. Expect billboards with grayscale pictures of a black woman or someone with a prosthetic limb looking defiantly at the camera but instead of saying "I am black." or whatever it'll say "I have ADHD/autism/BPD/etc"

Once such flaws and disorders have been rendered thoroughly passé as markers of personal uniqueness due to being embraced and subsumed by capital, I wonder what new thing people will come to identify with their whole being and become rabidly defensive and possessive of

The End of History is just Jennifer Government https://twitter.com/fletchposts/status/1289686977550450689?s=19

It's all so tiresome https://twitter.com/netscape_negro/status/1289699755791015945?s=19