to live as a subject.

 to live as a subject.


Is the idealized reality negotiable?


Reality is like a torrent, an overwhelming river that sweeps away everything and drags you in the direction you want it to go.


On the other hand, the ideal is like a small piece of wood in his hand.


In order not to be swept away by the rapids, you have to drive the wood into the river bed and hold out.


The force of the torrent is so strong that it can be dragged along. But without the shards driven into the river bed, we would not be able to resist the force of the rapids.


In this way, the ideal is the ideology that I want to live like this, and at the same time, it is an expression of the free spirit that I will decide my own life. However, the ideal is also a determination and a determination to fight against the torrent of reality.


People say that they “live independently” of the great people who persevered not to lose their ideals.


What does it mean to live independently?


Living as a master means not living as a slave. In other words, the subject is a free man.


Unfortunately, however, looking around, there are not many people who are proudly leading a free life as a master. Only a few people are living a life that is worthy of the word ‘juche’. Therefore, the expression ‘living independently’ can be the highest compliment that can be given to humans. Conversely, this shows how difficult it is to live independently.


How to live as a subject in a reality like a torrent, in other words, how to live freely?


“We call the actual process of fidelity to an event ‘truth’. Because the truth is what its fidelity produces in the context... We call the proponents of fidelity, the proponents of the truth process, the ‘subject’. Thus, the subject never precedes the process.”


- <Ethics>, Badiou


When you encounter an event that can shake up everything in the past or an event that makes your life full of joy, you have to stick to that event in spite of all kinds of adversity. This is because the subject can exist only through this fidelity.

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