content: "Coffee is life" I see a lot of girls stating this on dating sites. Imagine being so uninteresting that you define yourself by a drink you consume. We all get our identity from a variety of things, but with the dissolution of race and heritage there is a global crisis of personal identity. NPCs define themselves by the things they consume, to the extent where a simple "drink" is some noticeable feature of them. Same with Marvel, clothes etc. Then , they will also define themselves and live vicariously through their hobbies, such as "gymbros" or "youtube makeup artist" for girls, or even following a fucking football team of black men and living through their achievements. One stage above that, but still bugman, are those who define themselves by their career. People who "live" as a scientist and all their jokes and ego relate to them being a scientist. Or a psychologist, or some sort of other craft. They are so invested in it that they cannot afford being wrong, this leads to all kinds of useless and overdone scientific research papers we see today. This is the perfect example of Surrogate Activity which in my opinion comes not only from lack of control over your own survival, but also lack of a personal identity, the lines between the bugman and other stranger bugmen is blurred, not only are they not of any people or race, they are all following the exact same ideology and sedentary lifestyle. In Ancient tribes, although they were all the same people and culture, they were unified in a good way, i.e. fighting to a common goal(survival and self actualization), and as for identity this is where the "Archetype" comes in. Each person in the culture served some sort of sub-feature which was connotated with the archetypes we know from mythology/psychology. The Joker/Loki, the Hero/Herkules, the sage, etc. So in essence, there was both the shared and cherished group identity, and the private identity which related to human Archetype and your own sociopolitical role within the tribe(hunter, craftsman, knowledge area, where value was provided). Today, we have neither.