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On cooking the self

The self is an ideological construct whereby individuals are situationally 
linked to their social environments through normative statements setting
them off as individuals from the world around them. Thus understood,
individuals are the sites of many possible selves, anchored differently in
different situations. 

Historically, the attempt to redefine the self in ways suitable for
one organization, eg. the state and detrimental to another, eg. the church
has been a locus of major social contention. Temporality can be deeply 
implicated in definitions and redefinitions of the self, as selves become
defined and redefined in part through temporal patterns that mark them
as persons of a particular kind.

In seeking to create the new + improved socialist life form, the Romanian state
redefined the temporal punctuations in an attempt to define the socialist person
as arhythmic, and thus destabilize the self.

The Romanian concept of self is largely based on the family and immediate community.
A major part of Romanians' conception of self is to offer hospitality.
The food crisis imposed by the Romanian state further eroded the Romanian concept
of self by attempting to detach the idea of sociability from the offering of food,
and substantially extending the work day, as people waited in lines, immobilized. 

For a more acute and insidious self cookbook may consult your local occident democrassy \ biblioteka