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Classifications of The Self in The Modern Day, This concept of being "…

- - - - Concept of "Dirt as a matter out of place"
  - - - We have become so capitalist, as a society, that we have categorized our relationships solely on marketability and ROI. This then results in us being incredibly disappointed and resentful about our lives and one another because this.
    - - Foucault's concept of ranking is more related to how we, as individuals, correspond to the system in which we were brought up in. Now, this may sound like I just repeated what Mauss and Douglas say, but Foucault is more in a standard deviational way than "do you fit into the role that was predetermined for you" way.
        
        How far away do you fall from the average grade on an exam in school? How bad was your sentence in comparison to those who committed the same crime? How far along are you in your treatment, comparatively to that of your fellow patients?
        
        Becoming a data point or case to be studied automatically quantifies and categorizes you. If you are misaligned from the average and categorized as other, it can create their identity as an "other".
        
        Students, patients, and prisoners are then aware that they're being monitored and begin to monitor and compare themselves to the average and their peers. Slowly, this is an unspoken ranking understood by the individuals.
- - - - There is no gender, it's just societal performance
        
        Repeated behaviors that society has deemed as "correct" or "expected" for said gender, have created an illusion that there is this person consisting of a "man" or "woman". Yet, Butler argues that there isn't. Rather, we are just humans, existing as we are, repeating these behaviors because they are socially accepted and curate a greater community through shared experiences.
  - - - Culture is constantly changing to include varying levels of what it means to be something. Uses the ship as a metaphor
        
        His explanation of the ship really stuck with me, as it's such a historically and socially relevant discussion of what culture is and how it changes, especially when it changes in an oppressive manner.
    - - The categorization system that we have created, as a society, should not identify what the self is. Rather, it should be individual selves finding common relations. These artificial categories then do more harm than good, as Fanon also argues, and define roles before a person can determine who they are for themselves.
        
        Once these predetermined roles are identified by the individual, they feel a need to self-actualize them in order to feel fulfillment, when in reality that is not the case.
- - - - This then results in citizens with repressed feelings towards themselves, their parents, and their greater community.