Onion people

I have been thinking about the three layers of ‘self’.

At the core is the social-human layer which encompasses you and your closest family and friends at the purely emotional level; some happy people live their entire lives here.

The next layer out is the ‘activity’ layer which includes all your life’s activities in wealth creation and wealth usage; in work, education & leisure. This is an externalised layer of ‘self’ that really only emerged after the industrial revolution and requires ‘free’ time (time spent not subsisting).

Finally there is the ‘abstract’ layer which is a purely model-driven thought-structuring of the world and the universe, typically reserved for the intellectual elite and only visited by the masses in moments of drug-induced clarity.

More on all this later after I have thought about it some more and have convinced myself it doesn’t need adjusting.