/lit/ - Literature

>>3200347

/lit/ always gab about social constructs. Try this one on for size.

Introversion is probably the most flagrant social construct in the book. OP's image is a perfect example of the silliness of introversion. The folly of the picture is that you don't have to be a particular "type of person" in order to enjoy your alone time without sheepishly labeling yourself a deeply pensive introvert, no matter whether the label be conscious.

We see yet another social construct working at full capacity in this lame idea that one HAS to go to parties in their free time, which, finally, shall serve as my segway into the massive social dualism of the modern identity: "free time". We can see clearly now the source of "introversion"- namely, that the individual has divided their identity thus: obligatory/working self, social/free self. And the social/free self is subject to the ideology of the introvert who thinks they are at their best when smugly reclusive, deriding the idea that the free self ought be social.

But then, we wonder just how free the hermit or the socialite is. The adjusted individual is undeclared, neither an introvert nor an extrovert, since they are free from such a contrived dualism of identity. They would go and meet people just as they would read a book under a tree or whatever. And they would do both freely, without the influence of some imaginary other, some watchful eye, some objective label-maker.

I hope you won't take this as an attack on you, OP, since I don't know you. I was simply piqued by the image you posted.