The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 77 of 254
No fixed essence does not mean infinite narratives
it is true that the self has no fixed essence, that it is in part a construction and that the autobiographical narratives we tell ourselves invent an order and cohesion that real lives lack. But it is not good enough to revel in this in a kind of Dionysian frenzy. You have to soberly think through what follows from it. And what does not follow is the opposite extreme. If you reject the singular grand narrative, it does not follow that we should embrace an infinity of contradictory narratives.